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The Feasibility and Importance of Adding Measures of Actual Experience to Cross-Sectional Data Collection

IZA Institute for the Study of Labor Discussion Paper Series 08/2011;

ABSTRACT We use Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and data from a 2008 telephone survey of adults conducted by Westat for the Princeton Data Improvement Initiative (PDII) to explore the importance and feasibility of adding retrospective questions about actual work experience to cross-sectional data sets. We demonstrate that having such actual experience data is important for analyzing women's post-school human capital accumulation, residual wage inequality, and the gender pay gap. Further, our PDII survey results show that it is feasible to collect actual experience data in cross-sectional telephone surveys like the March Current Population Survey annual supplement.

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Keywords

actual experience data
 
adults
 
cross-sectional data sets
 
cross-sectional telephone surveys
 
Income Dynamics data
 
March Current Population Survey annual supplement
 
Princeton Data Improvement Initiative
 
residual wage inequality
 
retrospective questions
 
women's post-school human capital accumulation