Misclassification Errors and the Underestimation of U.S. Unemployment Rates
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- Shuaizhang Feng & Yingyao Hu, 2013. "Misclassification Errors and the Underestimation of the US Unemployment Rate," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 103(2), pages 1054-1070, April.
- Shuaizhang Feng & Yingyao Hu, 2012. "Misclassification Errors and the Underestimation of the U.S. Unemployment Rate," Economics Working Paper Archive 595, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics.
- Shuaizhang Feng & Yingyao Hu, 2010. "Misclassification errors and the underestimation of U.S. unemployment rates," Economics Working Paper Archive 561, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics.
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Keywords
Current Population Survey; unemployment rate; labor force participation rate; misclassification; measurement error;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2010-07-24 (Labour Economics)
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