Abstract for:

Measuring Income Mobility with Dirty Data (published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, 22(3), May 1999)

Frank A  Cowell,  Christian  Schluter,  November 1998
Paper No' CASE 016: | Full paper

---

Save Reference as: BibTeX File | EndNote Import File

---

Keywords: Mobility measures; robustness; data contamination

JEL Classification:

Is hard copy/paper copy available? YES - Paper Copy Still In Print.

---

This Paper is published under the following series: CASE Papers

---

Share this page: Google Bookmarks | Facebook | Twitter

---

Abstract:

We examine the performance of measures of mobility when allowance is made for the possibility of data contamination. We find that 'single-stage' 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 is appropriately specified.