On the reliability of retrospective unemployment information in European household panel data

Tomi Kyyrä and Ralf Wilke

Empirical Economics, 2014, vol. 46, issue 4, 1473-1493

Abstract: The retrospectively recalled calendar of activities in the European Community Household Panel is a prime resource for cross-country analysis of unemployment experience. We investigate the reliability of these data and find that 26 % of unemployed respondents misreported retrospectively their unemployment status in the subsequent interview. We observe large differences across countries: While the conditional probability of consistent information is 96 % in the UK, it is just 51 % in Greece for a comparable individual. By analyzing long-term unemployment and unemployment persistence, we show that the results of cross-country comparisons are strongly affected by these data problems. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

Keywords: Recall error; Unemployment; ECHP; C81; C83; J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s00181-013-0718-1

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