den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lindeboom, Maarten; Dolton, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey nonresponse may then cause a bias … respondents and non-respondents. We develop a method to empirically distinguish between two explanations for a bias in results … both explanations. We discuss implications for standard methods to deal with non-response bias. …