On hourly wages and weekly earnings in the current population survey

Long Liu

Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 105, issue 1, pages 113-116

Abstract: This paper examines hourly wages and weekly earnings in the Outgoing Rotation Group (ORG) and the March Supplement of Current Population Survey (CPS) from 1998 to 2004. The findings suggest that the ORG contains less errors than the March CPS, and that weekly earnings contain less errors than hourly wages. The paper further finds that earnings differ systematically in the ORG and in the March CPS by gender and education levels.

Keywords: Measurement; error; Current; Population; Survey; Weekly; earnings; Hourly; wages; Work; hours; per; week (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

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