what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longerterm earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality …, Germany, and the lowest, Portugal. The highest mobility as equalizer of longer term inequality is recorded in Ireland and … and how does it differ across the EU? Our basic assumption is that mobility measured over a horizon of 8 years is a good …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … trends, inequality, and mobility with results based on SOEP, a widely used alternate panel survey of private households in … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through …

. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total … substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well … as on income mobility. These findings are obviously even more important in cross-national comparative analyses if the …

Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility … and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation of income mobility … as an equalizer of permanent income. The proposed representation is called a mobility curve and forms the basis for …

did markedly increase. Wage mobility has hardly changed since the mid-1990s: almost two thirds of employees in the lowest …

Abstract This paper examines inequality and mobility using measures of income and consumption. Consumption is claimed … to be a better measure of permanent income and thus well-being, but most studies of inequality and mobility using U … examine changes in inequality and mobility. Similar to earlier findings, we show that there has been a large increase in …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …

ECHP. Understanding wage mobility and its link with the evolution of cross-sectional earnings inequality is important from … there common trends in earnings inequality and mobility across countries? Equally weighted minimum distance methods are used …-sectional inequality was accompanied by an increase in mobility, and therefore a decrease in the importance of the permanent component …