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Income inequality and income mobility

Wout Ultee
- pp 2275-2277
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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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Stagnation Generation: Evaluating the Impact of Higher Education Expansion on Social Mobility from the Perspective of Taiwan

TL;DR: The authors explored higher education expansion as a possible cause of class stagnation by adopting the Human Development Index as a comprehensive indicator of individual social status, and determined dynamic mobility by observing the case of Taiwan, where higher education was expanded in 1994.
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Assessing the impact of China's priority forest programs on rural household income mobility

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of China's priority forest programs (PFPs) on rural households' income mobility were investigated using survey results of 2,070 rural households in 15 counties of six provinces.
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Does Insurance Expansion Alter Health Inequality and Mobility? Evidence from the Mexican Seguro Popular

TL;DR: It is found that, the distribution of health worsens in Mexico between 2002 and 2009, although the change is only consistent for the upward looking definition of status, which means that Mexico is becoming more rigid over time insofar as the distributions of health status.
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Individual Earnings Mobility and the Persistence of Earnings Inequalities in Australia

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assesses earnings mobility among workers in Australia between 2001/2 and 2008/9 using HILDA household panel data and explore the importance of mobility as an equaliser of longer-term earnings.
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Three essays on the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy on Irish farms

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a method to solve the problem of the problem.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ xi, xi-Xi, Xi-xi.
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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.