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Household Panel (household + panel)
Kinds of Household Panel Terms modified by Household Panel Selected AbstractsDownward Wage Rigidity in Europe: A New Flexible Parametric Approach and Empirical ResultsGERMAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, Issue 2 2010Andreas Behr Wage rigidity; ECHP; Sticky prices Abstract. 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 and leptokurtosis. Significant downward nominal wage rigidity is found in all countries under analysis, but the extent varies considerably across countries. Yearly estimates reveal increasing rigidity in Italy, Greece and Portugal, while rigidity is declining in Denmark and Belgium. The results imply that the costs of price stability differ substantially across Europe. [source] Unemployment and self-assessed health: evidence from panel dataHEALTH ECONOMICS, Issue 2 2009Petri Böckerman Abstract We examine the relationship between unemployment and self-assessed health using the European Community Household Panel for Finland over the period 1996,2001. Our results show that the event of becoming unemployed does not matter as such for self-assessed health. The health status of those that end up being unemployed is lower than that of the continually employed. Therefore, persons who have poor health are being selected for the pool of the unemployed. This explains why, in a cross-section, unemployment is associated with poor self-assessed health. All in all, the cross-sectional negative relationship between unemployment and self-assessed health is not found longitudinally. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Explaining the differences in income-related health inequalities across European countriesHEALTH ECONOMICS, Issue 7 2004Eddy van Doorslaer Abstract This paper provides new evidence on the sources of differences in the degree of income-related inequalities in self-assessed health in 13 European Union member states. It goes beyond earlier work by measuring health using an interval regression approach to compute concentration indices and by decomposing inequality into its determining factors. New and more comparable data were used, taken from the 1996 wave of the European Community Household Panel. Significant inequalities in health (utility) favouring the higher income groups emerge in all countries, but are particularly high in Portugal and , to a lesser extent , in the UK and in Denmark. By contrast, relatively low health inequality is observed in the Netherlands and Germany, and also in Italy, Belgium, Spain Austria and Ireland. There is a positive correlation with income inequality per se but the relationship is weaker than in previous research. Health inequality is not merely a reflection of income inequality. A decomposition analysis shows that the (partial) income elasticities of the explanatory variables are generally more important than their unequal distribution by income in explaining the cross-country differences in income-related health inequality. Especially the relative health and income position of non-working Europeans like the retired and disabled explains a great deal of ,excess inequality'. We also find a substantial contribution of regional health disparities to socio-economic inequalities, primarily in the Southern European countries. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Latent class versus two-part models in the demand for physician services across the European UnionHEALTH ECONOMICS, Issue 4 2002Sergi Jiménez-Martín Abstract Using three waves of data from the European Community Household Panel, this paper estimates demand for physician services equations for 12 European countries. We focus on the selection of the most appropriate econometric specification for visits to general practitioners and to specialists among two-part and latent class models. The distinction between the demand of services from these two types of physicians allows us to distinguish cases in which two-part perform better than latent class models, evidence which is different from previous findings in the literature. The results suggest that latent class models are more appropriate than two-part models to estimate general practitioners utilisation while the opposite is found for visits to the specialists. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] The effects of income imputation on microanalyses: evidence from the European Community Household PanelJOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY: SERIES A (STATISTICS IN SOCIETY), Issue 3 2006Cheti Nicoletti Summary., Social surveys are usually affected by item and unit non-response. Since it is unlikely that a sample of respondents is a random sample, social scientists should take the missing data problem into account in their empirical analyses. Typically, survey methodologists try to simplify the work of data users by ,completing' the data, filling the missing variables through imputation. The aim of the paper is to give data users some guidelines on how to assess the effects of imputation on their microlevel analyses. We focus attention on the potential bias that is caused by imputation in the analysis of income variables, using the European Community Household Panel as an illustration. [source] Fertility and Employment in Italy, France, and the UKLABOUR, Issue 2005Daniela Del Boca According to the agenda for employment set by the European Union in 2000 for the following 10 years, the target for female employment was set at 60 per cent for the year 2010. Although Northern and most Continental countries have achieved this quantitative target, the Mediterranean countries are lagging behind. Labor market policies should be aimed to encourage women's participation and reduce the cost of working. However, the persistence of a negative relationship between participation and fertility in these countries implies that it is important to take fertility into account. We analyse a model of labor supply and fertility, using data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for the period 1994,2000, merged with regional data describing the available labor market opportunities in the households' environment. [source] Are household subjective forecasts of personal finances accurate and useful?JOURNAL OF FORECASTING, Issue 8 2009A directional analysis of the British Household Panel Survey Abstract The purpose of the paper is to analyse the accuracy and usefulness of household subjective forecasts of personal finance. We use non-parametric directional analysis to assess the subjective forecasts which are based on qualitative judgments. Using the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we are able to analyse a large number of individuals over a number of years. We also take into account individual characteristics such as gender, age, education and employment status when assessing their subjective forecasts. The paper extends the existing literature in two ways: the accuracy and usefulness of subjective forecasts, based on directional analysis, are assessed at the household level for the first time. Secondly, we adapt and extend the methods of directional analysis, which are applied to the household panel or longitudinal survey. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] INVESTMENT RISK AND THE TRANSITION INTO HOMEOWNERSHIP,JOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE, Issue 2 2007Tracy M. Turner R0; D12; D84 ABSTRACT This paper investigates the extent to which house,price uncertainty affects the transition of renter households into homeownership. Using a 14-year household panel from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics during the years 1984,1997 and measures of the time-varying risk and return to owner-occupied housing, we estimate a Cox proportional hazard model of the effect of house,price volatility on the transition into homeownership. Results indicate that house,price uncertainty has a negative and dramatic impact on transitions into homeownership. In addition, we find that the low-wealth renters are particularly sensitive to house,price risk. [source] The Impact of Generic Advertising on U.S. Household Cheese Purchases: A Censored Autocorrelated Regression ApproachCANADIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, Issue 1 2003Todd M. Schmit The impacts of generic cheese advertising on U.S. household cheese purchases are examined via the use of a unique household panel. Modest gains in overall at-home cheese purchases from generic cheese advertising appear to be largely the result of strong gains in purchases of natural cheese rather than processed cheese. Results indicate that relatively larger gains in household cheese purchases from generic advertising may be realized by targeting infrequent purchasers to increase purchase frequencies, rather than by targeting households in general to increase their conditional purchase levels. Les impacts de publicité de fromage générique sur les achats de fromage par les ménages américains sont examinés via l'usage d'un panneau unique fixé sur les ménages. Les accroissements modérés dans les achats du fromage à la maison à cause des avertissements génériques du fromage apparaissent d'être principalement le résultat des gains forts dans les achats de fromage de type nature plutôt que ceux de fromage traité. Les résultats indiquent que les plus grands gains dans les achats de fromage à la maison grâce à la publicité générique peuvent être rendus compte en visant sur les acheteurs rares pour augmenter leurs fréquences d'achat, plutôt que sur les ménages en général pour augmenter leurs niveaux d'achats conditionnels. [source] Using Scanner Technology to Collect Expenditure Data,FISCAL STUDIES, Issue 3-4 2009Andrew Leicester C81; C83; C33; C41 Abstract In terms of collecting panel expenditure data, there are trade-offs between the demands imposed on respondents and the detail and coverage of data collected. Comprehensive spending data tend to be cross-sectional whilst panel studies include only limited, aggregated expenditure questions. Recently, economists have begun to use detailed, bar-code-level spending data from household panels collected by market research companies. However, there has not been a detailed assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of this collection method or its implications for the recorded data. This paper seeks to fill this gap by providing an in-depth examination of data from one company, Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS), recording grocery purchases over five years. We assess how far the ongoing demands of participation lead to ,fatigue' in respondents' recording of their spending and the implications for household attrition, and we provide a detailed comparison of the expenditure data collected by TNS and the well-established Expenditure and Food Survey (EFS). Broadly, we suggest that problems of fatigue and attrition may not be particularly severe, though there are differences in expenditures that cannot be attributed to demographic or time effects and may be suggestive of survey mode effects. [source] | ||||||||||