Cowell, Frank 
ORCID: 0000-0002-3778-2152 and Schluter, Christian
(1998)
Measuring income mobility with dirty data.
CASEpaper (CASE/16).
Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London, UK.
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Abstract
We examine the performance of measures of mobility when allowance is made for the possibility of data contamination. We find that “singlestage” indices – those that are applied directly to a sample from a multivariate income distribution – usually prove to be non-robust in the face of contamination. However, “two-stage” models of mobility – where the distribution is first “discretised” into income intervals and then a transition matrix or other tool is applied – may be robust if the first stage if appropriately specified.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case/ |
| Additional Information: | © 1998 Frank A. Cowell and Christian Schluter |
| Divisions: | Economics STICERD Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HA Statistics |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Sep 2025 03:43 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/2079 |
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