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Matthew Gibbons

Bio: Matthew Gibbons is an academic researcher from Victoria University of Wellington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Granger causality & Real gross domestic product. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 3 publications receiving 16 citations.

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TL;DR: In this article, the Dunedin Study results suggest that rates of intergenerational income mobility for men and women from Dunedin are probably within a similar range to rates of income mobility in most other developed countries.
Abstract: Intergenerational mobility research quantifies the relationship between the circumstances of parents and the circumstances of their children as adults. This paper tentatively quantifies intergenerational economic mobility in New Zealand using the best available datasets. These datasets are: longitudinal income data from the Dunedin Study of the population of people born in Dunedin in 1972-73; and occupation data from the 1996 Election Study’s post-election nationwide survey. The occupation data determines the Socio-Economic Status (SES) of respondents and their parents. The results show that only a small proportion of variance in income or SES was explained by the economic situation of people’s parents, indicating that other explanatory variables are more important. The Dunedin Study results suggest that rates of intergenerational income mobility for men and women from Dunedin are probably within a similar range to rates of intergenerational income mobility in most other developed countries. Our results provide weak evidence that New Zealand has higher intergenerational occupational mobility than Britain, and stronger evidence that New Zealand men have higher intergenerational occupational mobility than men in Germany. Unfortunately, insufficient data is available to make intergenerational occupational mobility comparisons with other countries. We have to be cautious when interpreting our results because both datasets we used contain proportionately fewer Maori and Pacific peoples than New Zealand’s population. The Dunedin Study was founded in a single city, and while the study has a very high participation rate its participants may not be fully representative of New Zealand’s population. In addition, participants have not reached their peak earning years, and this may have affected the results. The nationwide Election Study is under-representative of people from groups less likely to be on the electoral roll and the data is now over 14 years old.

16 citations

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TL;DR: The relationship between patenting and both output series and real GDP was examined using nineteenth century New Zealand patent applications, and applications weighted by fees and required advertising expenditure, and the results indicated patentees were concentrating on economic needs.
Abstract: The relationship between patenting and both output series and real GDP was examined using nineteenth century New Zealand patent applications, and applications weighted by fees and required advertising expenditure. For individual output series and real GDP there were considerably more cointegrating relationships with Granger causality for expenditure than for application counts, suggesting the expenditure data provides a better measure of the value of patents. Output series and real GDP usually led patenting, particularly using patent expenditure data, which indicates patentees were concentrating on economic needs. In some of the results, however, output series and real GDP followed patenting.

1 citations

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06 Aug 2021
TL;DR: The relationship between patenting and output series and real GDP was examined using both nineteenth century New Zealand patent applications and applications weighted by fees and compulsory adverti... as mentioned in this paper, and applied to the New Zealand economy.
Abstract: The relationship between patenting and output series and real GDP is examined using both nineteenth century New Zealand patent applications, and applications weighted by fees and compulsory adverti...

1 citations


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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this article, the authors survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within and between-generations, and review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.
Abstract: We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within- and between-generations. We review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.

156 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within and between generations, and review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.
Abstract: We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within and between generations. We review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.

95 citations

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TL;DR: This article examined intergenerational occupational mobility in India, and found substantial inter-generational persistence, particularly in the case of low-skilled and low-paying occupations, e.g., almost half the children of agricultural labourers end up becoming agricultural laborers.
Abstract: Using data from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) 2005, we examine intergenerational occupational mobility in India, an issue on which very few systematic and rigorous studies exist. We group individuals into classes and document patterns of mobility at the rural, urban and all-India levels, and for different caste groups. We find substantial intergenerational persistence, particularly in the case of low-skilled and low-paying occupations, e.g. almost half the children of agricultural labourers end up becoming agricultural labourers. We also document differences across caste groups. Overall, our results suggest considerable inequality of opportunity in India.

40 citations

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TL;DR: A broad account of the New Zealand class system can be readily assembled from popularly available sources such as the item in the official New Zealand online Encyclopaedia Te Ara or the Wikipedia entry, together with common knowledge.
Abstract: A broad account of the New Zealand class system can be readily assembled from popularly-available sources such as the item in the official New Zealand online Encyclopaedia Te Ara or the Wikipedia entry, together with common knowledge. Having provided a sketch, this appendix then goes on to provide a brief overview and then listing of a bibliography on Social Class/Inequality in New Zealand.

9 citations