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Vulnerability to poverty : Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis

Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John S.; … - 2017

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...

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Like father, like son? : a comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility in Germany and the US

Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2018

Are children better off than their parents? This highly debated question in politics and economics is investigated by analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for...

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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America

Neidhöfer, Guido - 2018

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children’s economic well … experiencing higher income inequality in childhood is associated with lower intergenerational mobility measured in adulthood …

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Egalitarianism under pressure : toward lower economic mobility in the knowledge economy?

Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2017

Based on complete population data, with the exact same definitions of family class background and economic outcomes for a large number of birth cohorts, we examine post‐war trends in intergenerational economic mobility in Norway. Despite only mild fluctuations in standard rank‐based summary...

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Trends in assortative mating and offspring outcomes

Bratsberg, Bernt; Markussen, Simen; Raaum, Oddbjørn; … - 2018

assortative mating among the less educated has been reported across Western nations, suggesting that inequality in parental … rise in average offspring education and earnings as well as a decline in offspring inequality. …

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Why do preferences for redistribution differ across countries? : an experimental analysis

Grimalda, Gianluca; Farina, Francesco; Conte, Anna; … - 2022 - This draft: January 2023

We test for different theories purporting to explain cross-country differences in income redistribution through standardized experimental choices. US Americans and Italians demand less redistribution than Norwegians and Germans, regardless of whether self-interest is relevant. Those earning (or...

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Is inequality in subjective well-being meritocratic? : Danish evidence from linked survey and administrative data

Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; Olufsen, Isabel Skak - 2022

This paper decomposes inequality in subjective well-being into inequality due to socioeconomic background (SEB) and … meritocratic inequality due to differences in individual merits such as school performance. We measure the meritocratic share of … outcomes are not yet visible. At age 18-19, about 40 percent of the inequality in well-being is meritocratic. The role of …

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Intergenerational mobility of economic well-being in Latin America

Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022 - This version: 31 August 2022

We estimate, for the first time, long-run trends in intergenerational economic mobility for a multitude of countries in Latin America going beyond parent-child correlations in educational attainment. We use several indicators of well-being, such as the socio-economic situation of individuals,...

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The distributional incidence of growth: a social welfare approach

Palmisano, Flaviana; Peragine, Vito

This paper provides a normative framework for the assessment of the distributional inci- dence of growth. By removing the anonymity axiom, such framework is able to evaluate the individual income changes over time and the reshuffling of individuals along the income distri- bution that are...

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Removing the anonymity axiom in assessing pro-poor growth

Grimm, Michael - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2005

and vertical inequality. That means usual assessments of pro-poor growth look at distributional changes over time and …

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