Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jenkins, Stephen P.

Titel

Was the mid-2000s drop in the British job change rate genuine or a survey design effect?

Ist Teil von

• Economics letters, 2020-09, Vol.194, p.109383, Article 109383

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The year-on-year job change rate fell sharply, from 18% in 2005 to around 13% in 2006, according to British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) estimates. This fall coincides with the introduction of dependent interviewing to the BHPS, intended to reduce measurement error and improve consistency. Estimates from models of job change misclassification (Hausman et al., 1998) show that reduced measurement error cannot account for the fall in the job change rate. This suggests that the fall was genuine. •The UK year-on-year job change rate fell from 18% in 2005 to around 13% in 2006.•This fall coincides with the introduction of dependent interviewing to the BHPS.•I fit models of job change misclassification (Hausman et al., 1998).•Reduced measurement error cannot account for the fall in the job change rate.•This suggests that the fall was genuine.