suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …

inequality and mobility for demand for redistribution and social insurance. We model the size of two different public programs …, and the demand for redistribution crucially depend on the level of income inequality and mobility. …

This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large … about 2/3 of the value of the Gini coefficient of annual earnings. Within cohorts, mobility in the distribution of yearly …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …

what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longer-term earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality …, Germany, and the lowest, Portugal. The highest mobility as equalizer of longer term inequality is recorded in Ireland and … and how does it differ across the EU? Our basic assumption is that mobility measured over a horizon of 8 years is a good …

. All countries recording an increase in cross-sectional inequality recorded also a decrease in short-term mobility. Among … countries where inequality decreased, short-term mobility increased in Denmark, Spain, Ireland and UK, and decreased in Belgium … question is answered by exploring short and long-term wage mobility for males across 14 EU countries between 1994 and 2001 …

-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and … ECHP, minimum distance estimator is used to decompose earnings inequality into the permanent and transitory components and …

incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … net effect of mobility on inequality and social welfare. …Income mobility is often thought to equalize permanent incomes and thereby to improve social welfare. The welfare …

implications of these labour market structural changes for the structure of earnings inequality and earnings mobility. Using an … earnings inequality into persistent and transitory components and explored the extent to which changes in cross …-sectional earnings inequality between 1988 and 2004 reflect changes in the transitory or permanent components of earnings. Thanks to the …