Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/106400 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 15-005
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is a rotational panel provided by Eurostat that covers variables with a high potential for comparative European labour market and social research. Unfortunately, its current availability limits its potential research applications. This research note describes these shortcomings of the current data provision. Furthermore, we make two contributions for a better exploitation of these data sets: First, we develop a method for combining the different waves in order to increase the number of usable observations; and second, we indicate how monthly data on income and hourly pay can be derived.
Subjects: 
EU-SILC
sampling weights
income
Europe
data quality
panel data
JEL: 
C81
C83
D31
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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