Errors in Survey and Administrative Data on Employment Earnings: Austria and the United Kingdom Compared

We contribute new cross-national evidence about the nature of measurement errors in employment earnings, fitting the same error components model to harmonised earnings data for Austria and the UK. The model allows for measurement error in the administrative data and linkage error as well as survey measurement error. We find several cross-national similarities in error structure but also intriguing differences in error component probabilities, means, and dispersions.

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Year of publication:	2025
Authors:	Bollinger, Christopher R. ; Jenkins, Stephen P. ; Rios-Avila, Fernando ; Tasseva, Iva V.
Publisher:	Bonn : Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Subject:	measurement error \| linkage error \| earnings \| linked survey data \| administrative data \| finite mixture models

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Series:	IZA Discussion Papers ; 18129
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	1936673770 [GVK] hdl:10419/331693 [Handle] RePEc:iza:izadps:dp18129 [RePEc]
Classification:	C81 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data ; C83 - Survey Methods; Sampling Methods ; D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions
Source:	EconStor

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