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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793541
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Inconsistencies in Reported Employment Characteristics among Employed Stayers
Bassi, Francesca; Padoan, Alessandra; Trivellato, Ugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566604
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Inconsistencies in Reported Employment Characteristics Among Employed Stayers
Bassi, Francesca - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765324
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735902
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Comparing retrospective and panel data collection methods to assess labor market dynamics
Asʿad, Rāǧī; Krafft, Caroline; Yassin, Shaimaa; … - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 17, pp. 1-34
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974415
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Rationality of business operational forecasts: evidence from Malaysian distributive trade sector
Puah, Chin-Hong; Wong, Shirly Siew-Ling; Habibullah, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The underlying nature of forecast optimization makes the rational expectations hypothesis (REH) a framework that is theoretically consistent with the expectations formation produced by economic agents under well-defined assumptions of unbiased forecasts and efficient utilization of available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258718
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269582
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938170
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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 - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116405
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Can a Repeated Opt-Out Reminder remove hypothetical bias in discrete choice experiments? An application to consumer valuation of novel food products
Alemu, Mohammed H.; Olsen, Søren Bøye - 2017
Recent papers have suggested that use of a so-called Repeated Opt-Out Reminder (ROOR) might mitigate hypothetical bias in stated Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE), but evidence so far has only been circumstantial. We provide the first comprehensive test of whether a ROOR can actually mitigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012101054