Fig. 1
From: Later one knows better: the over-reporting of short-time work in firm surveys
Employees on STW: Administrative Numbers and Unadjusted Estimates from Firm Surveys. Notes: The final administrative numbers from the Federal Employment Agency agency are published after a time delay of six months. Numbers from the ifo-Institute are taken from press releases (Link et al. 2020a; Link and Sauer 2020b). Design-based 95% confidence intervals are shown for BeCovid, an IAB firm level survey that started during the Covid-19 pandemic (Backhaus et al. 2021). Raw, unadjusted numbers for BeCovid are shown