Errors in survey and administrative data on employment earnings: Austria and the United Kingdom compared

Christopher R. Bollinger, Stephen Jenkins, Fernando Rios-Avila and Iva Tasseva

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Abstract: We contribute new cross-national evidence about the nature of measurement errors in employment earnings, fitting the same error components models to harmonised earnings data for Austria and the UK. For both countries, there is evidence that administrative data contain measurement errors in addition to linkage errors, and there is no mean reversion in survey measurement errors.

Keywords: measurement error; linkage error; earnings; linked survey data; administrative data; finite mixture models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 D31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 5 pages
Date: 2026-05-31
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Published in Economics Letters, 31, May, 2026, 264. ISSN: 0165-1765

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Working Paper: Errors in survey and administrative data on employment earnings: Austria and the United Kingdom compared (2025)
Working Paper: Errors in Survey and Administrative Data on Employment Earnings: Austria and the United Kingdom Compared (2025)
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