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Poverty in Russia: a bird's-eye view of trends and dynamics in the past quarter of century

Abanokova, Kseniya; Dang, Hai-Anh H. - 2021

Hardly any recent study exists that broadly reviews poverty trends over time for Russia. Analyzing the Russian … Longitudinal Monitoring Surveys between 1994 and 2019, we offer an updated review of poverty trends and dynamics for the country … over the past quarter of century. We find that poverty has been steadily decreasing, with most of the poor having a …

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Measuring poverty dynamics with synthetic panels based on repeated cross-sections

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2022

multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with …

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Climbing up ladders and sliding down snakes : an empirical assessment of the effect of social mobility on subjective wellbeing

Dolan, Paul; Lordan, Grace - 2019

We examine how intergenerational mobility affects subjective wellbeing (SWB) using data from the British Cohort Study. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we consider both relative and absolute movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is...

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Household income mobility in India : 1993-2011

Azam, Mehtabul - 2016

Using nationally representative longitudinal survey, we examine the income mobility among rural (urban) Indian households over 1993-2004 and 2004-2011 (2004-2011). We find mobility estimates that mirror the social hierarchy: Forward Hindu Caste (FHC) households experienced the highest (lowest)...

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The ins and outs of top income mobility

Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Modalsli, Jørgen … - 2013

This paper is concerned with the question of whether top income earners are permanently there or only temporarily receive the highest incomes. How much mobility is there at the top of the income distribution, and how has mobility changed over time? The paper makes both a methodological and an...

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On synthetic income panels

Moreno, Hector; Bourguignon, François; Dang, Hai-Anh H. - 2021

In many developing countries, the increasing public interest in monitoring economic inequality and mobility is hindered … d) considering the whole income mobility matrix rather than mobility in and out of poverty. We exploit the cross …

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Income increase and moving to a better neighbourhood : an enquiry into ethnic differences in Finland

Vaalavuo, Maria; Ham, Maarten van; Kauppinen, Timo M. - 2017

Concentration to disadvantaged neighbourhoods may hinder immigrants' opportunities for social integration, so equal chances of translating available economic resources into mobility to less disadvantaged neighbourhoods are important. This paper adds to existing research on exits from poor...

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Rising top-income persistence in Australia: evidence from income tax data

Hérault, Nicolas; Hyslop, Dean Robert; Jenkins, Stephen; … - 2021

We use a new Australian longitudinal income tax dataset, Alife, covering 1991–2017, to examine levels and trends in the persistence in top-income group membership, focussing on the top 1%. We summarize persistence in multiple ways, documenting levels and trends in rates of remaining in...

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Income mobility

Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen - 2013

This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in the volume (and its predecessor), the aim is to provide comprehensive review of a particular area...

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Many rivers to cross: social identity, cognition and labour mobility in rural India

Michiels, Sébastien; Nordman, Christophe J.; Seetahul, … - 2021

By considering the case of rural South India, this study analyses whether individual skills and personality traits are able to facilitate labour market mobility of disadvantaged groups in the presence of constraining social structures. We use an individual panel dataset built on two household...

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