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 studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year … Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179-199, 2004). Earnings records of pension insurants in Germany serve as the … decomposition over time. Specifically, we show that the mobility component of the decomposition, as measured by Gini correlation …

We investigate the trends of inequalities and mobility of income, expenditure and stock of durables between 1993 and … 1998 in Hungary. In 1996-8 the stagnating level of inequalities is coupled with relatively low and decreasing mobility. The … relationship between inequalities and mobility fastens the relative positions of households, increasing the share of households …

This study focuses on growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda. We take a broad perspective, in two respects. First, we …. Second, we look beyond static measures of material welfare and study economic and social mobility as well as indicators of …

suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …