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Income inequality and income mobility

Wout Ultee
- pp 2275-2277
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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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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.
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The role of family risk attitudes in education and intergenerational mobility: An empirical analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of family risk attitudes in intergenerational mobility in incomes and education was analyzed based on data of sons and fathers from the German Socio-economic Panel Survey.
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A Society of Unstable Wellbeing: Income Mobility and Immobility in Russia

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on individual income mobility among Russians in the years 2009-2017, as measured objectively and subjectively, as compared to member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Dissertation

An economic analysis of vertical equity in the delivery of health care in England

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the overlooked issue of vertical equity in health care delivery and suggest an extension to this measure that takes into account the full distribution of needs in a population, and apply their suggested methods to measure inequity in individual level and in area level health care provision in England.
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Orderings by intergenerational mobility based on the semiring of monotone matrix

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied Shorrocks' and Blackwell's ordering in a semiring of monotone doubly stochastic matrices and proved that these two orderings are compatible with Dardanoni's partial ordering on a set of matrices.