potential anti-globalization sentiment is the emergence of a global middle class: a group of consumers who demand access to, and …

. This paper shows how dynamic pseudo-panel methods can overcome these difficulties, allowing estimation of non-linear income … Mexico and are compared to panel data estimates from a short rotating panel. The results do find evidence of nonlinearities … in household income dynamics and demonstrate large bias in the panel data estimates. Nevertheless, even after allowing …

and of the flexibility and freedom of its labor market. But estimation of mobility using panel data is biased by the … presence of measurement error and non-random attrition from the panel. This paper shows that dynamic pseudo-panel methods can …-classical measurement errors. These methods are applied to data on earnings from a Mexican quarterly rotating panel. Absolute mobility in …