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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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Cross-country income mobility comparisons under panel attrition: the relevance of weighting schemes
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of panel attrition on income mobility comparisons for some EU countries by using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) were assessed. But, the results showed that ECHP attrition is characterized by a certain degree of selectivity but only affecting some variables and countries.
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Household Income Inequality and Income Mobility: Implications Towards Equalizing Longer-Term Incomes in India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address three important questions: what are the trends, levels and sources of income inequality in India? Second, how have been the patterns of income mobility? And fina...
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Dynastic Inequality Compared: Multigenerational Mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany
TL;DR: The authors analyzed long-run social mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, and test recent theories of multigenerational persistence of socioeconomic status using harmonized household survey data.
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Trends in U.S. Family Income Mobility, 1969-2006
TL;DR: This article examined family income mobility levels and trends for U.S. working-age family heads and spouses during the time span 1969-2006, based on a post-tax, post-transfer concept of income adjusted for family size.
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Poverty dynamics in rural Sindh, Pakistan
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for rural Sindh, Pakistan, and find that the incidence of poverty increased sharply over this time, as the percentage of households entering poverty was nearly three times higher than the proportion of households escaping into poverty.