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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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Out-of-pocket payments in the Austrian healthcare system – a distributional analysis

TL;DR: The results – especially those for prescription fees and therapeutic aids – are of high relevance for the recent and on-going discussion on the reform of benefit catalogues and cost-sharing schemes in the public health insurance system in Austria.
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Cross-national differences in income mobility: evidence from canada, the united states, great britain and germany

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the differences in income mobility among four countries (Canada, United States, Great Britain and Germany) during the 1990s and early 2000s using a standardized dataset, and found that there exist diverse levels of income mobility across the four countries.
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Longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequality

TL;DR: A new index of "income-related health mobility" is proposed that measures whether the pattern of health changes is biased in favour of those with initially high or low incomes.
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Australia: inequality and prosperity and their impacts in a radical welfare state

TL;DR: This paper explored the factors behind these trends as well as the impacts of growing prosperity and rising inequality on a range of social outcomes and found that the richest decile have enjoyed the largest increase in real disposable income of any OECD country.
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The Many Facets of Economic Mobility

TL;DR: In this paper, Schumpeter compared income distributions to the rooms in a hotel, and the difference in the quality of the hotel rooms at each point in time is what we call inequality.
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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.