Schmillen, Achim; Umkehrer, Matthias; von Wachter, Till - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 58 (2024) 1, pp. 1-31
We present evidence on the extent of measurement error in German longitudinal earnings data. Qualitatively, we confirm the main result of the international literature: longitudinal earnings data are relatively reliable in a cross section but much less so in first differences. Quantitatively, in...
