Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18283 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 299
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
Many validation studies deal with item-nonresponse and measurement error in earnings data. In this paper we explore motives of respondents for the failure to reveal earnings using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). GSOEP collects socio-economic information of private households in the Federal Republic of Germany. We explain the evolution of income-nonresponse in the GSOEP and demonstrate the importance of a discrimination between refusing the income-statement or don't know.
Subjects: 
Respondent behavior
Interviewer effects
Item-Nonresponse
Panel analysis
Multilevel modeling
JEL: 
C81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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