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Using Behavioral Economic Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier : The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project

Burks, Stephen V. - 2015

The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...

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Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases : An Introduction

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2015

-based: CEPALSTAT, Income Distribution Database (IDD), LIS, PovcalNet, and Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean … (SEDLAC). Two are based on secondary sources: "All the Ginis" (ATG) and the World Income Inequality Database (WIID); and one … is generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID …

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World Income Inequality Databases : An Assessment of Wiid and Swiid

Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2014

This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality – the World Income Inequality Database … (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations …

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Explaining Variation in Child Labor Statistics

Dillon, Andrew - 2012

Child labor statistics are critical for assessing the extent and nature of child labor activities in developing countries. In practice, widespread variation exists in how child labor is measured. Questionnaire modules vary across countries and within countries over time along several dimensions,...

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The Feasibility and Importance of Adding Measures of Actual Experience to Cross-Sectional Data Collection

Blau, Francine D. - 2011

We use Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and data from a 2008 telephone survey of adults conducted by Westat for the Princeton Data Improvement Initiative (PDII) to explore the importance and feasibility of adding retrospective questions about actual work experience to cross-sectional...

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Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance : Evidence from Mexico

Kumler, Todd - 2013

Non-compliance of firms with tax regulations is a major constraint on state capacity in developing countries. We focus on an arguably under-appreciated dimension of non-compliance: under-reporting of wages by formal firms to evade payroll taxes. We develop a simple partial-equilibrium model of...

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Time Use and Time Budgets : Improvements, Future Challenges and Recommendations

Merz, Joachim - 2009

"Time-use statistics offer a unique tool for exploring a wide range of policy concerns including social change; division of labour; allocation of time for household work; the estimation of the value of household production; transportation; leisure and recreation; pension plans; and health-care...

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Survey Under-Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality : What is the Role of the UK's SPI Adjustment?

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2017

Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income tax record data in combination with survey data is a potential approach to address the problem; we consider here the UK's pioneering 'SPI adjustment' method that implements...

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Education Research and Administrative Data

Figlio, David N. - 2015

Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world has developed this remarkable capacity to...

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Do Returns to Education Depend on How and Who You Ask?

Serneels, Pieter M. - 2016

Returns to education remain an important parameter of interest in economic analysis. A large literature estimates returns to education in the labor market, often carefully addressing issues such as selection, both into wage employment and in terms of completed schooling. There has been much less...

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