Accuracy of Response in Labor Market Surveys: Evidence and Implications
利用1977年当前人口调查的补充数据和就业机会试点项目调查的匹配数据，分析行业、职业、工会状态、工时和工资等变量的回答误差，并探讨这些误差对工资风险权衡、工会工资效应等经济分析的影响。
This paper examines the extent of response errors in labor market survey data and explores the implications of such errors for economic analysis. Explicitly examined are responses to questions on industry, occupation, union status, hours worked, and wages. Analyses are based on two sources: (1) a special supplement to the January 1977 Current Population Survey that obtained data from workers and their employers and (2) an exact match of workers and their employers interviewed in the Employment Opportunity Pilot Project Survey. The dual nature of these surveys provides a basis for analyzing the effect of response error on a variety of economic analyses including the trade-off between wages and risk, the wage impact of unionism, and the sensitivity of wage-determination models to alternative responses to earnings questions.