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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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Income Mobility in America
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between intergenerational mobility and inter-county migration and found that higher mobility rates are not strongly related to increased migration to a county, suggesting that movers have limited knowledge of which counties lead to better outcomes.
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List of tables and figures
TL;DR: The study indicates that there has been a positive increase in the concentration index for both males and females in Australia between 2001 and 2005 and concludes that estimates from Australia are akin to estimates from Scotland and England & Wales, while greater regressivity in health outcomes is seen for Australian males than for Australian females.
Mobility Decomposition Over Several Periods: Theory and Evidence on Consumption Mobility from Peru
TL;DR: In this article, a decomposition of the multi-period mobility index proposed by Shorrocks (1978) into structural and exchange mobility components is proposed for consumption mobility in Peru.
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Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States around the World
Charlotte Bartels,Dirk Neumann +1 more
TL;DR: This article investigated to what extent long-run redistribution diverges from annual redistribution in welfare states of different types, and found that welfare states like Germany that are assumed to engage in a high level of redistribution actually achieve relatively less redistribution between individuals in the long run than the United Kingdom or the United States.
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The relative persistence of income inequality and intra-generational income mobility in Poland during and after the Great Financial Crisis (2008-2015)
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors measured the relative persistence of income inequality and intra-generational income mobility in Poland during the period 2008-2015, based on the panel survey data, their subsample includes 501 households.
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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.