Out of Work, Out of Mind: Response Errors in Retrospective Reports of Unemployment
失业后淡忘：回溯性失业报告中的回答误差
This article examines several aspects of the validity of retrospective reports of unemployment, obtained by a comparison of respondent reports with company records for a sample of workers from a large manufacturing firm. We find that reports of the total amount of unemployment in the calendar year prior to the interview are reasonably accurate, but reports of the timing of spells of unemployment within the year are much less accurate. Estimates of a regression model relating…