Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates … substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current …. During the period of 1996 to 2009, the corrected monthly unemployment rates are 1 to 4.6 percentage points (25% to 45 …

Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates … substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current …. During the period of 1996 to 2009, the corrected monthly unemployment rates are 1 to 4.6 percentage points (25% to 45 …

Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rate … substantially underestimates the true level of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in the labor force status in the … Current Population Survey. During the period from January 1996 to August 2011, the corrected monthly unemployment rates are …

This online appendix accompanies the paper "Misclassification Errors and the Underestimation of the U.S. Unemployment …

original data as formally working, but are likely to be engaged in the labor force on the basis of the self- employment of …

Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates … substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current …. During the period of 1996 to 2009, the corrected monthly unemployment rates are 1 to 4.6 percentage points (25% to 45 …

Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates … substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current …. During the period of 1996 to 2009, the corrected monthly unemployment rates are 1 to 4.6 percentage points (25% to 45 …

employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment of household production … measures of unemployment and employment ; transitional economies …Studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied on standard, publicly available employment and …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …