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A Note on the POUM Effect with Heterogeneous Social Mobility
Feri, Francesco - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali, … - 2011
We study the determinants of the (steady-state) POUM effect in a model where the individuals evaluate their expected future income using both their current income and observable characteristics such as education, race or gender.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540153
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Mobility as Progressivity: Ranking Income Processes According to Equality of Opportunity
Bénabou, Roland; Ok, Efe A. - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 2000
Interest in economic mobility stems largely from its perceived role as an equalizer of opportunities, though not necessarily of outcomes. In this paper we show that this view leads very naturally to a methodology for the measurement of social mobility which has strong parallels with the theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738446
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A note on the POUM effect with heterogeneous social mobility
Feri, Francesco - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 2, pp. 258-262
We study the determinants of the (steady-state) POUM effect in a model where the individuals evaluate their expected future income using both their current income and observable characteristics such as education, race or gender.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010572255
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Income mobility and economic inequality from a regional perspective
Rodríguez, Juan Prieto; Rodríguez, Juan Gabriel; … - In: Journal of Applied Economics XIII (2010) November, pp. 335-350
correlation between inequality and mobility. In Prieto et al. (2008), a significant positive relationship was found at the … regional level. The indices are calculated for the set of EU regions using the European Community Household Panel survey. Total …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835374
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Mobility as Progressivity: Ranking Income Processes According to Equality of Opportunity
Bénabou, Roland; Ok, Efe A. - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 2000
Interest in economic mobility stems largely from its perceived role as an equalizer of opportunities, though not necessarily of outcomes. In this paper we show that this view leads very naturally to a methodology for the measurement of social mobility which has strong parallels with the theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150120
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Information, Social Mobility and the Demand for Redistribution
Feri, Francesco - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2008
This paper studies how heterogeneity in income dynamics affects the POUM hypothesis (the idea that poor people do not support high level of redistribution because they hope to be rich in the future). We consider a setting where individuals evaluate their expected future income using both their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005432663
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Inclusive Growth; Measurement and Determinants
Anand, Rahul; Mishra, Saurabh; Peiris, Shanaka J. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
dynamic measure permits us to focus on inequality as well as distinguish between countries where per capita income growth was … globalization could also be positive with foreign direct investment and trade openess fostering greater inclusiveness, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242387
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Social Mobility and the Demand for Redistribution: the POUM Hypothesis
Bénabou, Roland; Ok, Efe A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
Even relatively poor people oppose high rates of redistribution because of the anticipation that they, or their children, may move up the income ladder. This ‘Prospect of Upward Mobility’ (POUM) hypothesis is commonly advanced to explain why democracies do not engage in large-scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662178
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The Use of Marriage Data to Measure the Social Order in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Bottero; Prandy, Kien - In: Sociological Research Online 3 (1998) 1, pp. 6-6
This article describes the construction of a measure of the social order in the nineteenth century, which will subsequently be used as a basis for studying processes of social reproduction (or social mobility). The technique of correspondence analysis is used to map the ordering of groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005767036
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Class Struggle: Some Diluting effects of Inter-Generational Mobility
Sah, Raaj; Renelle, Philippe - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - 2003
Karl Marx viewed class struggles to be so central as to assert that all societal history was, and will in the future be … (namely, the poor and the rich) chooses how much resources to spend on influencing the stochastic outcomes of class struggle …-generational concerns is that a society’s inter-class economic mobility across generations turns out to be a central determinant of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703925