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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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Was growth in Egypt between 2005 and 2008 pro-poor ? from static to dynamic poverty profile
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a detailed picture of how sustained growth in Egypt over 2005-2008 affected different groups both above and below the poverty line, and show the importance of going beyond averages to look at the trajectories of individual households.
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Upward structural mobility, exchange mobility, and subgroup consistent mobility measurement: u.s.–german mobility rankings revisited
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors formalize the concept of upward structural mobility and use the framework of subgroup consistent mobility measurement to derive a relative and an absolute measure of mobility that is increasing in upward structural Mobility.
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Who is at the Top? Wealth Mobility Over the Life Cycle
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present empirical estimates of household movements into and out of the top percents of the wealth distribution over individual life cycles and find that wealth mobility increased until the end of the 1980s and then started to decrease.
Dissertation
Economic inequality and social class
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Goldthorpe class schema to test theories claiming that social class is increasingly irrelevant to inequality and people's life-chances with data on incomes and material living standards from the British Household Panel Survey.
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From the Classical Gini Index of Income Inequality to a New Zenga-Type Relative Measure of Risk: A Modeller’s Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a risk measure that takes into account the relativity of large risks with respect to small ones. But they do not consider the relationship between large risks and small risks.
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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.