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The ins and outs of top income mobility
Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Modalsli, Jørgen … - 2013
This paper is concerned with the question of whether top income earners are permanently there or only temporarily receive the highest incomes. How much mobility is there at the top of the income distribution, and how has mobility changed over time? The paper makes both a methodological and an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211222
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Yours inclusively? : income mobility in Ireland, 10 years of tax record microdata
Kennedy, Seán; Haugh, David; Stanley, Brian - 2019
also who moves up and down the income ladder over time. While income inequality has increased in most OECD countries, in … progressive taxation has also reduced the top 1 per cent’s share of disposable income. This paper finds that income inequality … to greater income inequality but also higher upward income mobility. Indeed, the analysis in the paper shows upward …
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Inflation and the income share of the rich : evidence for 12 OECD countries
El Herradi, Mehdi; Haan, Jakob de; Leroy, Aurélien - 2020
This paper examines the distributional implications of inflation on top income shares in 12 advanced economies using data over the period 1920-2016. We use Local Projections to analyze how top income shares respond to an inflation shock, and panel regressions in which all variables are defined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197609
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Intergenerational mobility, human capital accumulation, and growth in India
Weide, Roy van der; Vigh, Melinda - 2018
Productivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine. A society with high mobility is one where individual achievements are influenced less by the individual’s parents and...
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Falling behind or catching up? : cross-country evidence in intra-generational wages mobility through pseudo-panels
Lilla, Marco - 2016
The paper aims to encompass evidence on wage distribution and inequality with micro-mobility measures for several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484346
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How high can you climb? : earnings inequality and intragenerational earnings mobility in a developing country : evidence from Thai tax returns
Athiphat Muthitacharoen; Trongwut Burong - 2023
This paper investigates inequality and intragenerational economic mobility in a developing country with large … inequality. Understanding economic mobility is important because it shapes our perception of inequality. Despite its significance … countries. Using Thailand's tax return data, we study the evolution of earnings inequality, estimate medium-term earnings …
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Inequality and income dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, Johannes - 2022
We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012886897
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Inequality and income dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, Johannes - 2022
We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168056
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Inequality and income dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, Johannes - 2022
We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193660
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Rural household income mobility in transitional China : evidence from China Household Income Project
Yang, Sui - 2015
the major source, followed by the 'growth mobility'. The comparison with income inequality indicated that the low degree … of mobility is not conducive to the narrowing of inequality. However, the high degree is not accompanied by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470414