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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.

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Redistribution as an income mobility process: The identification and measurement of redistribution

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a framework to statistically identify redistribution as a micro-level income mobility process, and developed an index to measure it using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, which is empirically distinct from the conventional measures that have been used in the literature.
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Gelir Hareketliliği Eşitsizlikleri Azaltabilir Mi? Türkiye Örneği

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed income inequality and income mobility together for a developing country Turkey which is one of the countries having most unequal income distributions and found that the individuals at the two tails of the distribution are more mobile with respect to the ones in the middle.
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Exploring the relation between income mobility and inequality at the regional level using EU-SILC microdata

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of labour-related income inequality on income mobility in French and Spanish NUTS2 regions and found that the negative relation between income inequality and mobility is also present in the short and medium run.
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Income risk, income mobility and welfare

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility and welfare, where individual income is assumed to follow a stochastic process with two (unobserved) components, component representing measurement error or transitory income shocks and an Autoregressive component representing persistent changes in income.
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Longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequalities: methods, challenges and applications.

TL;DR: The aim is to provide an overview of the concepts and empirical methodologies in the current literature, and to guide interested researchers in their choice of an appropriate inequality measure.
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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

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.