incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … net effect of mobility on inequality and social welfare. …Income mobility is often thought to equalize permanent incomes and thereby to improve social welfare. The welfare …

This paper examines the effect of the intensity, timing, and persistence of personal history of mobility on individual … support for redistribution. Using both rounds of Life in Transition Survey, we build measures of downward mobility for about … persistent downward mobility increases support for redistribution. Accounting for systematic bias in perceived mobility …

, uncertainty, rising income and wealth inequalities, decreasing mobility) and demand for redistribution. Our context is Hungary … welfare. According to the POUM hypothesis, we also found a negative correlation between expected intergenerational mobility … and individual support for redistribution. People perceive their relative income position, their relative mobility and …

This paper examines the effect of the intensity, timing, and persistence of personal history of mobility on individual … support for redistribution. Using both rounds of Life in Transition Survey, we build measures of downward mobility for about … persistent downward mobility increases support for redistribution. Accounting for systematic bias in perceived mobility …

that increased mobility of production factors will pose a severe threat to redistribution possibility is less acute than it … might first appear. The equilibrium tax rate can be not only positive but also increasing in the degree of mobility of …