Hello,
I was wondering if there was a proper way to connect income with occupation. Basically I am interested in occupation mobility networks, capturing occupational transitions, and would like to incorporate the yearly weighed average income of an occupation. However, the income reported in INCWAGE accounts for the entire previous calendar year. Meaning, if someone switched occupation within this time period (OCC and OCCLY are different) INCWAGE represents what that person earned in total, and it cannot be properly assigned to one occupation. Another variable I looked into is INCLONGJ which holds the earnings of a persons longest job in the previous year. But again I do not know which occupation to assign this to (which occupation was the longest one?) as well as the timespan how long a person worked in this longest occupation in order to properly calculate a yearly income average for this occupation.
Am I missing something here? Is there an appropriate way on how to conduct this?
Thank you in advance!
Julia