Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51938 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5873
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
gender
microeconomic data collection
human capital
work experience
JEL: 
C81
J16
J24
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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