Reported VS. Actual Job Search by Unemployment Insurance Claimants
比较了失业保险申领者自报的求职联系次数与独立验证的实际次数，发现自报数平均每周2.61次，实际仅1.78次，近五分之一的人一周内无任何求职联系。自报数据可能扭曲对失业保险金影响求职强度的结论，并影响失业率统计。
This study compares self-reported job search contacts of unemployment insurance recipients with independently verified job-search contacts. For the total sample, reported contacts averaged 2.61 per week compared with actual contacts of only 1.78 per week; nearly one-fifth of the sample made no job contacts for the single weeks analyzed. The separate equations estimated for reported and actual job contacts suggest that systematic misreporting may distort the conclusions-particularly for the impact of unemployment insurance benefits on search intensity-that would result from analyzing reported (rather than actual) contacts. Some implications of the findings for reported unemployment rates also are explored.