Misclassification Errors and the Underestimation of the US Unemployment Rate
Misclassification Errors and the Underestimation of the US Unemployment Rate
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Nashville: American Economic Association
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English
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Nashville: American Economic Association
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Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official US 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...
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Misclassification Errors and the Underestimation of the US Unemployment Rate
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1335018639
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1335018639
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0002-8282
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1944-7981
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10.1257/aer.103.2.1054
