mobility by the two groups of workers sustains the second best optimum. …

2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply during the 1980’s and early 1990’s and … transitory wage inequality and only to a lesser extent to an increase in permanent wage inequality. The transitory component of ….65 over a ten-year period. The constant wage inequality in the second half of the 1990’s is attributed to a slight decrease in …

This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year …="CR31">2003</CitationRef>), and in Yitzhaki and Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199, <CitationRef CitationID …. Specifically, we show that the mobility component of the decomposition, as measured by Gini correlation coefficients, changes over …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the mobility of per capita income distribution in the European regions during the … period 1977-1996. In doing so we will attempt highlight some aspects of the nature of interregional inequality. Our … results obtained show that the degree of mobility is relatively low within the distribution under analysis. In addition our …

shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …

How much economic mobility is there across generations in a poor, primarily rural, economy? How much do … intergenerational linkages contribute to current inequality? We address these questions using original survey data on Senegal that … degree of mobility across generations, associated with the shift from farm to non-farm sectors and greater economic activity …

Taxes and transfers can have significant impacts on poverty and inequality. All standard measures are by definition … directional mobility literature provides a useful framework to identify which individuals are adversely/favorably impacted by a … particular policy. This paper introduces a "fiscal mobility matrix" to identify winners and losers. We show that taxes and …

This paper estimates the different intra-generational mobility indicators for Chile on the basis of the Casen panel … matrixes that there is high mobility in Chile and no evidence of barriers to that mobility among different income groups. …

results in inequality research. The authors find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well as … on income mobility. …