Was the mid-2000s drop in the British job change rate genuine or a survey design effect?

Stephen Jenkins

Economics Letters, 2020, vol. 194, issue C

Abstract: The year-on-year job change rate fell sharply, from 18% in 2005 to around 13% in 2006, according to British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) estimates. This fall coincides with the introduction of dependent interviewing to the BHPS, intended to reduce measurement error and improve consistency. Estimates from models of job change misclassification (Hausman et al., 1998) show that reduced measurement error cannot account for the fall in the job change rate. This suggests that the fall was genuine.

Keywords: Job change; Misclassification error; Dependent interviewing; Feed forward (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 C81 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109383

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