Frick, Joachim R.; Goebel, Jan; Schechtman, Edna; … - 2004
A particular shortcoming of panel surveys is potential bias arising from selective attrition. Based on data from the … German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) we analyze potential artifacts (level, structure, inequality of income) by comparing … results from two independently drawn panel sub-samples, started in 1984 and 2000, respectively. Both sub-samples carried on …