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Inconsistencies in reported employment characteristics among employed stayers

Bassi, Francesca (contributor); … - 2008

The paper deals with measurement error, and its potentially distorting role, in information on industry and … aggregated classifications. They suggest that even cross-section estimates of employment by industry and/or professional status … are affected by non-random measurement error. -- Industry ; professional status ; measurement errors ; survey data …

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Comparing retrospective and panel data collection methods to assess labor market dynamics

Asʿad, Rāǧī; Krafft, Caroline; Yassin, Shaimaa - 2017

There is potential for measurement problems in both retrospective and panel microdata. In this paper we compare results on basic indicators related to labor markets and their dynamics from retrospective and panel survey data in Egypt, in order to determine the conditions under which results are...

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Do labor statistics depend on how and to whom the questions are asked? : results from a survey experiment in Tanzania

Bardasi, Elena; Beegle, Kathleen; Dillon, Andrew; … - 2010

Labor market statistics are critical for assessing and understanding economic development. In practice, widespread variation exists in how labor statistics are measured in household surveys in low-income countries. Little is known whether these differences have an effect on the labor statistics...

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Testing weak cross-sectional dependence in large panels

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2012

This paper considers testing the hypothesis that errors in a panel data model are weakly cross sectionally dependent, using the exponent of cross-sectional dependence α, introduced recently in Bailey, Kapetanios and Pesaran (2012). It is shown that the implicit null of the CD test depends on...

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Panels with nonstationary multifactor error structures

Kapetanios, George (contributor); … - 2006

The presence of cross-sectionally correlated error terms invalidates much inferential theory of panel data models. Recently work by Pesaran (2006) has suggested a method which makes use of cross-sectional averages to provide valid inference for stationary panel regressions with multifactor error...

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Combining survey and geospatial data can significantly improve gender-disaggregated estimates of labor market outcomes

Merfeld, Joshua D.; Newhouse, David Locke; Weber, Michael; … - 2022

Better understanding the geography of women's labor market outcomes within countries is important to inform targeted efforts to increase women's economic empowerment. This paper assesses the extent to which a method that combines simulated survey data from urban areas in Mexico with broadly...

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Modelling errors in survey and administrative data on employment earnings : sensitivity to the fraction assumed to have error-free earnings

Jenkins, Stephen; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2020

Kapteyn and Ypma (Journal of Labour Economics 2007) is an influential study of errors in survey and administrative data on employment earnings. To fit their mixture models, Kapteyn and Ypma assume a specific fraction of their sample have error-free earnings. Using a new UK dataset, we assess the...

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Women at work in the United States since 1860: an analysis of unreported family workers

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2021

Estimated labor force participation rates among free women in the pre-Civil War period were exceedingly low. This is due, in part, to cultural or societal expectations of the role of women and the lack of thorough enumeration by Census takers. This paper develops an augmented labor force...

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Misclassification errors and the underestimation of US unemployment rates

Feng, Shuaizhang; Hu, Yingyao - 2010

Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current Population Surveys. Our closed-form identification of the...

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Measuring gender attitudes using list experiments

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; De Cao, Elisabetta; Khatoon, … - 2020

We elicit adolescent girl's attitudes towards intimate partner violence and child marriage using purposefully collected data from rural Bangladesh. Alongside direct survey questions, we conduct list experiments to elicit true preferences for intimate partner violence and marriage before age...

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