Examining the Economic / Econometric Relevance of Discretizing Panel Data: An Application to the Belgian Labour Market

E. Cahuzac, M. Mouchart and Bruno Van der Linden
Additional contact information
E. Cahuzac: IRES, Université catholique de Louvain, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
M. Mouchart: CORE and Institut de Statistique, Université catholique de Louvain, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

No 1993018, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: The object of this paper is to explore how to use administrative data for econometric purposes when these data measure total annual duration spent in various states. A basic issue addressed in this paper is to check whether the information extracted through categorizing continuous data actually defines an economically meaningful concept of an individual position on the labour market. The main findings are first that discretization indeed leads to interpretable transitions on the labour market and second that the mobility between positions is rather low in Belgium.

Date: 1993-05-01
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://sites.uclouvain.be/core/publications/coredp/coredp1993.html (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cor:louvco:1993018

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) Voie du Roman Pays 34, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Alain GILLIS ().