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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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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.
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Measuring Economic Inequality and Risk: A Unifying Approach Based on Personal Gambles, Societal Preferences and References
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that by appropriately choosing population-based references, called societal references, and distributions of personal positions, called gambles, which are random, they can meaningfully unify classical and contemporary indices of economic inequality, as well as various measures of risk.
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Inequality and Mobility of Household Incomes in Europe. Evidence from the ECHP
TL;DR: In this article, a cross country comparison shows a negative relationship between total relative mobility and long-run income equalization, this results is contrary to the intuition given by Shorrocks [1978a] who stated, that higher relative mobility will cause higher equalization of incomes when the accounting period is extended.
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Earnings Inequality and Dynamics in the Presence of Informality: The Case of Brazil
Niklas Engbom,Niklas Engbom,Niklas Engbom,Gustavo Gonzaga,Christian Moser,Christian Moser,Christian Moser,Roberta Olivieri +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of rich administrative and household survey data was used to document a series of new facts on earnings inequality and dynamics in a developing country with a large informal sector: Brazil Since the mid-1990s, both inequality and volatility of earnings have declined significantly in Brazil's formal sector.
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Inequality and the time structure of earnings: Evidence from Germany
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the relationship between annual and sub-annual inequality and mobility during the course of the year and showed that the mobility component of the decomposition, as measured by Gini correlation coefficients, changes over time.
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Redistribution as an income mobility process: The identification and measurement of redistribution
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a framework to statistically identify redistribution as a micro-level income mobility process, and developed an index to measure it using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, which is empirically distinct from the conventional measures that have been used in the literature.