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A European Analysis of Changes in Gender Specific Wage Inequality Using Decomposition Methods

Comparing Estimation Strategies for Income Equations in the Presence of Panel Attrition: Empirical Results Based on the ECHP

Since attrition in the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) has cumulated to a considerable extent, there is concern that attrition biases empirical analysis. In this paper we compare the performance of four different strategies for estimating an earnings equation in the presence of panel attrition. By splitting the completely observed sample in one wave according to the response behavior of the ...

The estimation of male earnings under panel attrition. A cross country comparison based on the European Community Household Panel

The aim of the paper is analyzing the effect of attrition in the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) on earnings equations. By splitting the completely observed sample according to the response behavior of the following wave, we assess empirically the bias of an un-weighted as well as an inverse probability weighted estimator. Our findings lead us to conclude that the problem of attrition is ...

The Effect of Panel Attrition on Measures of Income Inequality and Change in the European Community Household Panel User Data Base (ECHP UDB)

Extent and Determinants of Panel Attrition in the European Household Panel

Analysing Wage Differences Between the USA and Germany Using Proportional Hazards Models

Downward Wage Rigidity in Europe: A New Flexible Parametric Approach and Empirical Results

We suggest a new parametric approach to estimate the extent of downward nominal wage rigidity in ten European countries between 1995 and 2001. The database used throughout is the User Data Base of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). The proposed approach is based on the generalized hyperbolic distribution, which allows to model wage change distributions characterized by thick tales, skewness ...

What determines wage differentials across the EU?

We analyse determinants of the wage differentials observed between thirteen European countries using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). The empirical decomposition is based on a proportional hazards model. The approach based on rank invariant estimators is borrowed from the literature on failure time data and has been adapted by Donald et al. (Rev Econ Stud 67:609–633, 2000) to analyse ...

Do Means-tested Benefits Alleviate Poverty?: Evidence on Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom from the Luxembourg Income Study

This article analyses the relationship between means-tested benefits and poverty in Western Europe. Means-tested benefits, as social assistance or housing benefits, are designed as safeguards against poverty for the low-income strata of the population, but our knowledge on their impact is fairly limited. How effective are they in reducing poverty rates? To what degree can they fill the gap that income ...

Is There Income Poverty in Western Europe? Methodological Pitfalls in the Measurement of Poverty in a Comparative Perspective