Wages and Measurement Errors

Joop Hartog and Hans Van Ophem

Annals of Economics and Statistics, 1991, issue 20-21, 243-256

Abstract: In this paper two wage observations which relate to the same point in time will be compared and the differences analyzed. The OSA-labor market survey contains information about wages received in April 1985 as reported in April 1985 and as reported in October 1986 by the same respondents. Large differences appear to exist. This paper intends to investigate whether these differences are random, by developing and estimating a maximum likelihood model. The estimation results indicate that the differences are not random. In particular, changes in the individual's labor market position seem to be important in the explanation of the observed differences. This conclusion casts strong doubt on the quality of wage variables as reported from the memories of individuals.

Date: 1991
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/20075814 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:adr:anecst:y:1991:i:20-21:p:243-256

Access Statistics for this article

Annals of Economics and Statistics is currently edited by Laurent Linnemer

More articles in Annals of Economics and Statistics from GENES Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Secretariat General () and Laurent Linnemer ().