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What Has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality Since the Mid-1990s? Answers from Reconciled and Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2016

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences in variable definitions and combine survey and tax...

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Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in Rural Bangladesh

Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2011

transition matrices show substantial persistence in wealth even when we correct for measurement errors in parental wealth. We do …Unique residential history data with retrospective information on parental assets are used to study household wealth … not find wealth mobility to be higher between periods of a person's life than between generations. We find that the …

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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements : A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt

Binzel, Christine - 2013

This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...

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Increased Opportunity to Move Up the Economic Ladder? Earnings Mobility in EU : 1994-2001

Sologon, Denisa Maria - 2009

Do EU citizens have an increased opportunity to improve their position in the distribution of earnings over time? This question is answered by exploring short and long-term wage mobility for males across 14 EU countries between 1994 and 2001 using ECHP. Mobility is evaluated using rank measures...

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Intra-Household Wealth and Welfare Inequality in the US : Estimations from a Collective Model of Labor Supply

Molina, Jose Alberto - 2018

This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … leads to wealth inequalities. However, the intra-household processes appear to be efficient in terms of welfare, as … spouses' estimated indirect utility. Our results shed light on the spouses' wealth shares and the sharing rule guiding the …

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Do Rising Top Incomes Lift All Boats?

Andrews, Dan - 2010

Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a panel of 12 developed nations observed for between 22 and 85 years. After 1960, however, a one percentage point rise in the top decile's income share is associated with a...

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Using Pseudo-Panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America

Cuesta, Jose - 2011

This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for...

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A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality

Cunha, Flavio - 2008

This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across sectors. We determine which components of realized earnings variability are due to uncertainty...

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On the Measurement of Long-Term Income Inequality and Income Mobility

Aaberge, Rolf - 2010

This paper proposes a two-step aggregation method for measuring long-term income inequality and income mobility, where mobility is defined as an equalizer of long-term income. The first step consists of aggregating the income stream of each individual into a measure of permanent income, which...

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Direct Measures of Intergenerational Income Mobility for Australia

Murray, Chelsea - 2017

We present the first Australian estimates of intergenerational mobility that draw on direct observations of income from two generations. Using panel data for three birth cohorts of young adults from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics Australia survey, the estimated intergenerational...

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