ON NONRESPONSE CAUSALITY TESTING IN ROTATING PANEL DESIGNS UNDER THE COX MODEL

Abstract

High survey nonresponse in unemployment duration studies may have a strong effect on inference if  exit from unemployment affects the chance of nonresponse (nonresponse causality). In rotational studies  large part of the nonresponse results from panel attritions. A method to test the  presence of the causality mechanism for rotating panel designs is proposed and its asymptotic consistency is proved under the Cox regression model. An application to real labor data and a simulation study are shown.