Modelling errors in survey and administrative data on employment earnings: sensitivity to the fraction assumed to have error-free earnings
Jenkins, S. P.
& Rios-Avila, F.
(2020).
Modelling errors in survey and administrative data on employment earnings: sensitivity to the fraction assumed to have error-free earnings.
Economics Letters,
192,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109253
& Rios-Avila, F.
(2020).
Modelling errors in survey and administrative data on employment earnings: sensitivity to the fraction assumed to have error-free earnings.
Economics Letters,
192,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109253
Kapteyn and Ypma (Journal of Labour Economics 2007) is an influential study of errors in survey and administrative data on employment earnings. To fit their mixture models, Kapteyn and Ypma assume a specific fraction of their sample have error-free earnings. Using a new UK dataset, we assess the sensitivity of model estimates and post-estimation statistics to variations in this fraction and find some lack of robustness.