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The Evolution of Rotation Group Bias : Will the Real Unemployment Rate Please Stand Up?
Krueger, Alan B. - 2014
group bias for households that responded in all eight interviews. An analysis of rotation group bias in Canada and the U ….K. reveal no rotation group bias in Canada and a modest and declining bias in the U.K. There is not a "Heisenberg Principle" of …
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Do Markets Respond More to More Reliable Labor Market Data? A Test of Market Rationality
Krueger, Alan B. - 2000
Since 1979, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has nearly quadrupled the size of the sample used to estimate monthly employment changes. Although first-reported employment estimates are still noisy, the magnitude of sampling variability has declined in proportion to the increase in the sample...
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Improving the Accuracy of Economic Measurement with Multiple Data Sources : The Case of Payroll Employment Data
Cajner, Tomaz - 2019
This paper combines information from two sources of U.S. private payroll employment to increase the accuracy of real-time measurement of the labor market. The sources are the Current Employment Statistics (CES) from BLS and microdata from the payroll processing firm ADP. We briefly describe the...
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A Note on Longitudinally Matching Current Population Survey (CPS) Respondents
Madrian, Brigitte C.; Lefgren, Lars John - 2021
In this paper, we propose an approach for evaluating the trade-offs inherent in different approaches used to match Current Population Survey (CPS) respondents across various CPS surveys. Because there is some measurement error in both the variables used to identify individuals over time and in...
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Data Difficulties in Labor Economics
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021
This essay sets out a framework for evaluating empirical work in terms of the ability of the data to provide adequate parameter estimates and hypothesis tests about the true underlying structure. Problems of aggregation, representativeness and structural change are discussed in detail. These...
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Economies of Scale in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing Revisited : A Resolution of the Entrepreneurial Labor Input Problem
Margo, Robert A. - 2013
In a famous paper, Kenneth Sokoloff argued that the labor input of entrepreneurs was generally not included in the count of workers in manufacturing establishments in the early censuses of manufacturing. According to Sokoloff, this biased downward econometric estimates of economies of scale if...
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Does it Matter If Statistical Agencies Frame the Month's CPI Reporton a 1-Month or 12-Month Basis?
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2017
When the US Bureau of Labor Statistics releases new numbers, in theory it should make no difference whether the press release emphasizes the most recent 1-month number, which is what it always does, or the 12-month number, as many other countries' statistical agencies do. This paper offers the...
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Industrial Actions in Schools : Strikes and Student Achievement
Baker, Michael - 2011
While many jurisdictions ban teacher strikes on the assumption that they harm students, there is surprisingly little research on this question. The majority of existing studies make cross section comparisons of students who do or do not experience a strike, and report that strikes do not affect...
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Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? a Field Experiment with Six Thousand Resumes
Oreopoulos, Philip - 2011
), but were no different compared to foreign applicants from Britain. 2) Employers valued experience acquired in Canada much … more than if acquired in a foreign country. Changing foreign resumes to include only experience from Canada raised callback … Canada or not, or whether the applicant obtained additional Canadian education or not had no impact on the chances for an …
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When Opportunity Knocks, Who Answers? New Evidence on College Achievement Awards
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2010
We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian commuter campus. The award scheme offered linear cash incentives for course grades above 70. Awards were paid every term. Program participants also had access to peer advising by...
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