Cowell, Frank and Schluter, Christian (1998) Measuring income mobility with dirty data. CASE paper; CASE 16, 16. Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics and Political Science, 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 |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HA Statistics |
| Sets: | Collections > Economists Online Departments > Economics Research centres and groups > Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) Research centres and groups > Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) |
| Rights: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/rights/LSERO.htm |
| Identification Number: | 16 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/2079/ |
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