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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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Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the U.S., 1940 to 2000
TL;DR: This article used a two-sample instrumental variables approach to estimate a time series of intergenerational economic mobility using the decennial U.S. Censuses and found that the inter-generational income elasticity (IGE) followed a roughly U-shaped pattern from 1940 to 2000 that is similar to well known cross-sectional inequality trends.
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Income Inequality, Permanent Incomes, and Income Dynamics: Comparing Europe to the United States
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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.