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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...
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of income mobility might change depending on the specific scale parameters that are employed. Our results are robust to …
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upward mobility than downward mobility. Poor households are also more likely to have enjoyed stronger consumption expenditure …
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economic crisis. Spain is also a country which is characterised by a very high percentage of homeownership, with more than 83 … factors influencing the spatial mobility decisions of households, but little is known about how these factors influenced … mobility during the recent economic crisis. This paper uses rich individual level microdata from the last two Spanish censuses …
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Is the brain drain a curse or a boon for developing countries? This paper reviews what is known to date about the magnitude of the brain drain from developing to developed countries, its determinants and the way it affects the well-being of those left behind. First, I present alternative...
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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 …
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We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us - for the first time - to offer a complete picture of the distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that...
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distribution in Uruguay for 2009-2016 and assess mobility patterns. Comparing household surveys micro-data and a unique array of … top 1% close to 80%. Meanwhile, the equalizing effect of income mobility was very modest. …
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Using administrative data on the globally connected super-rich in the UK, we study the effect of a large tax reform on migration behaviour. Prior to 2017, offshore investment returns for 'non-doms' - individuals tax-resident in the UK but with connections to other countries – were untaxed....
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We find that each of the past four generations of Americans was better off than the previous one, using a post-tax, post-transfer income measure constructed annually from 1963-2022 based on the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement. At age 36-40, Millennials had a real...
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