Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/123801 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2014-24
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
Test-retest reliability assessments rarely investigate whether reliability itself is stable or whether change in reliability affects findings from substantive models. Research across the social sciences often recognises that measurement error could influence results, yet it rarely applies established error correction methods. Focusing on gender wage inequality, we address two questions. First, to what extent does reliability vary over time, across genders and across measurement protocols? Second, does correcting for measurement error influence substantive conclusions about gender wage inequality? Comparing British and Australian panel data, we find little temporal variability in reliability; however measurement error effects are variable and sometimes substantial.
Subjects: 
British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)
Household
Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey
Measurement Error
Quasi-Simplex Models
Gender wage discrimination
Decomposition methods
Panel data
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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