Examining the Economic / Econometric Relevance of Discretizing Panel Data : An Application to the Belgian Labour Market
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.
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1993-05-01
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Authors: | CAHUZAC, E. ; MOUCHART, M. ; VAN DER LINDEN, B. |
Institutions: | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), École des Sciences Économiques de Louvain |
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