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Income inequality and income mobility
Wout Ultee
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The article was published on 2007-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 119 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Income distribution & Income inequality metrics.read more
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Inequality adjusted income growth
Thomas Demuynck,Dirk Van de gaer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce and characterize a new measure of aggregate income growth that allows to give more weight to individuals with lower individual income growth than individuals with higher individual growth.
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Health and Wealth: Empirical Findings and Political Consequences
Andrew M. Jones,Eddy van Doorslaer,Teresa Bago d'Uva,Silvia Balia,Lynn Gambin,Cristina Hernández Quevedo,Xander Koolman,Nigel Rice +7 more
TL;DR: The findings of the ‘‘ECuity III’’ project are reviewed, a network of European health economists who have investigated socioeconomic inequalities in health and health care, as these prove to be crucial for a better understanding of cross-country differences in inequalities.
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Household Income Mobility in India: 1993-2011
TL;DR: This article examined the income mobility among rural (urban) Indian households over 1993-2004 and 2004-2011 (2004-2011) and found mobility estimates that mirror the social hierarchy: Forward Hindu Caste (FHC) households experienced the highest (lowest) upward (downward) mobility.
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Similarity, dissimilarity and exceptionality: generalizing Gini’s transvariation to measure “differentness” in many distributions
TL;DR: The authors studied the differences between the income distributions of males and females drawn from Metis, Inuit, North American Indian and Non-Aboriginal constituencies in Canada in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
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Income mobility in Argentina
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the variability of labor incomes in Argentina from mid-1980s to 2005 and evaluated the magnitude of income instability and its determinants under different macroeconomic contexts.
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Earnings Inequality and Mobility in the United States: Evidence from Social Security Data Since 1937
TL;DR: This article used Social Security Administration longitudinal earnings micro data since 1937 to analyze the evolution of inequality and mobility in the United States and found that long-term mobility among all workers has increased since the 1950s but has slightly declined among men.
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Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the United States, 1940 to 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate trends in intergenerational economic mobility by matching men in the Census to synthetic parents in the prior generation, finding that mobility increased from 1950 to 1980 but has declined sharply since 1980.
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Stability and Change in Self-Reported Sexual Orientation Identity in Young People: Application of Mobility Metrics
TL;DR: Gender- and age-related changes in sexual orientation identity from early adolescence through emerging adulthood in 13,840 youth ages 12–25 employing mobility measure M, a measure modified from its original application for econometrics is described.
Income Mobility I
Markus Jäntti,Stephen P. Jenkins +1 more
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.
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Does Income Mobility Equalize Longer-term Incomes? New Measures of an Old Concept
TL;DR: This article developed a new class of measures of mobility as an equalizer of longer-term incomes, a concept different from other notions such as mobility as time-independence, positional movement, share movement, income flux, and directional income movement.