TY  - JOUR
AU  - Abraham,Katharine G.
AU  - Haltiwanger,John C.
AU  - Sandusky,Kristin
AU  - Spletzer,James
TI  - Exploring Differences in Employment between Household and Establishment Data
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14805
PY  - 2009
Y2  - March 2009
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14805
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14805.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Katharine G. Abraham
Joint Program in Survey Methodology
1218 LeFrak Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742
Tel: 301/405-1004
Fax: 301/314-7912
E-Mail: kabraham@survey.umd.edu

John C. Haltiwanger
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: 301/405-3504
Fax: 301/405-3542
E-Mail: haltiwan@econ.umd.edu

Kristin Sandusky
U.S. Bureau of Census
LEHD Program
4700 Silverhill Road
Suitland, MD  20233
Tel: (301)763-5292
Fax: (301) 457-8430
E-Mail: lee.k.sandusky@census.gov

James Spletzer
Bureau of Labor Statistics
2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Suite 4945
Washington, DC  20212
Tel: 202-691-7393
Fax: Senior Research Economist
E-Mail: Spletzer.Jim@bls.gov
AB  - Using a large data set that links individual Current Population Survey (CPS) records to employer-reported administrative data, we document substantial discrepancies in basic measures of employment status that persist even after controlling for known definitional differences between the two data sources.  We hypothesize that reporting discrepancies should be most prevalent for marginal workers and marginal jobs, and find systematic associations between the incidence of reporting discrepancies and observable person and job characteristics that are consistent with this hypothesis.  The paper discusses the implications of the reported findings for both micro and macro labor market analysis.
ER  -