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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.

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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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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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Searching for Optimal Inequality/Incentives

TL;DR: This paper examined the evolution of economic inequality in Sweden before, during and after the major macroeconomic recession in the early 1990s and found that despite the rise in inequality, Sweden remained one of the most egalitarian economies in the world.
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Economic approach to intergenerational mobility: Measures, methods, and challenges in developing countries

TL;DR: In this article, a critical survey and synthesis of the recent economic literature on intergenerational mobility in developing countries, with a focus on data and methodological challenges, is provided, where the attenuation due to measurement error is compounded by sample truncation resulting from co-residency and causes substantial downward bias in inter-generational regression coefficient.
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Poverty and poverty dynamics in rural Ethiopia

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the broad trends in poverty by calculating poverty measures of the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke class, as well as to analyse the correlates of poverty by means of regression trees.
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Consolidating the evidence on income mobility in the western states of germany and the united states from 1984 to 2006

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that a great social transformation (German reunification) has permanently altered mobility in Germany, and they find that income mobility declines significantly over the years immediately following reunification in Germany but not in the United States.