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The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality
Biewen, Martin - 2002
persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262791
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If Seebohm Rowntree had studied Sweden: How poverty changed in the city of Göteborg from 1925 to 2003
Gustafsson, Björn; Jansson, Birgitta - 2010
This paper investigates the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of … Göteborg for the years 1925, 1936, 1947, 1958 as well as more recent (1983, 1994 and 2003) information. We define poverty as … living in a household with a disposable income lower than a poverty line that represents a constant purchasing power all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269843
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Using pseudo-panels to measure income mobility in Latin America
Cuesta, Jose; Ñopo, Hugo; Pizzolitto, Georgina - 2011
traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276065
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Using pseudo-panels to measure income mobility in Latin America
Cuesta, Jose; Ñopo, Hugo; Pizzolitto, Georgina - 2007
traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and, to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278251
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Boats and tides and "Trickle Down" theories: What economists presume about wellbeing when they employ stochastic process theory in modeling behavior
Anderson, Gordon - 2012
. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309045
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The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality
Biewen, Martin - 2002
persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260800
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Trends in U.S. family income mobility, 1967-2004
Bradbury, Katharine; Katz, Jane - 2009
Much of America's promise is predicated on the existence of economic mobilitythe idea that people are not limited or defined by where they start, but can move up the economic ladder based on their efforts and accomplishments. Family income mobilitychanges in individual families' real incomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280955
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Do poor children become poor adults? Lessons from a cross country comparison of generational earnings mobility
Corak, Miles - 2006
A cross country comparison of generational earnings mobility is offered, and the reasons for the degree to which the long run labour market success of children is related to that of their parents is examined. The rich countries differ significantly in the extent to which parental economic status...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332989
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Determinants of Income Mobility and Household Poverty Dynamics in South Africa
Woolard, Ingrid; Klasen, Stephan - 2004
role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with large initial household size, poor initial education, poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261797
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Measuring vulnerability to poverty using long-term panel data
Landau, Katja; Klasen, Stephan; Zucchini, Walter - 2012
We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290956