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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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Testing for Mobility Dominance

TL;DR: In this paper, two views of mobility are considered, either based on measures of absolute mobility or on transition matrices, and tests for stochastic dominance in mobility based on the empirical likelihood ratio are proposed.
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Inequality and Welfare Dynamics in the Russian Federation during 1994-2015

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Surveys over the past two decades spanning this transition is presented.
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Space-time patterns of rank concordance: Local indicators of mobility association with application to spatial income inequality dynamics

TL;DR: The Local Indicators of Mobility Association (LIMA) as discussed by the authors measures the degree of concordance (stability) or discordance (exchange mobility) reflected within an economy's local spatial context.
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Does Inequality Harm Income Mobility and Growth? An Assessment of the Growth Impact of Income and Education Inequality in Paraguay 1992: 2002

TL;DR: In Paraguay, the most striking macroeconomic result of the decade was a per capita income decrease beginning in late 1995, hand in hand with a poverty increase after 1996 as discussed by the authors.
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Gendered Effects of Employment Protection on Earnings Mobility

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored potential gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility, differentiating between upward and downward movements, and found that, overall, the higher the protection for regular contracts, the lower the earnings mobility (either upward or downwards) although the effect is stronger among women of high reproductive age.
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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.