Missing wages: How to test for biased estimates in wage functions?

Michael Fertig and Katja Görlitz

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 118, issue 2, 269-271

Abstract: This paper investigates how to test for nonresponse selection bias in wage functions induced by missing income information. We suggest an “easy-to-implement” approach which requires information on interviewer IDs and the interview date rather than hard-to-get interviewer characteristics.

Keywords: Item nonresponse; Wages; Selection model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.10.036

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