Cross-Country Income Mobility Comparisons Under Panel Attrition: The Relevance of Weighting Schemes

Luis Ayala, Carolina Navarro and Mercedes Sastre
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Carolina Navarro: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Mercedes Sastre: Instituto de Estudios Fiscales / Universidad Complutense

No 47, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: This paper aims to present an assessment of the effects of panel attrition on income mobility comparisons for some EU-countries by using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). There are different possibilities of correcting the attrition problem by means of alternative longitudinal weighting schemes. The sensitivity of mobility estimates to these attrition correction procedures is tested in the paper. Our results show that ECHP attrition is characterised by a certain degree of selectivity but only affecting some variables and countries. Different probability models corroborate the existence of a certain non-random attrition. The model chosen to construct the longitudinal weights to correct attrition offers up rather different results than those obtained when Eurostat’s longitudinal weights are used. Although attrition does not seem to have a great effect on aggregated mobility indicators, it does have a decisive effect on decomposition exercises. Finally, the tests conducted on income mobility indicators reveal a certain sensitivity to the weighting system used.

Keywords: Income mobility; attrition; European Community Household Panel. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2006
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Journal Article: Cross-country income mobility comparisons under panel attrition: the relevance of weighting schemes (2011)
Working Paper: CROSS-COUNTRY INCOME MOBILITY COMPARISONS UNDER PANEL ATTRITION: THE RELEVANCE OF WEIGHTING SCHEMES
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