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We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within- and between-generations. We review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.
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This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in the volume (and its predecessor), the aim is to provide comprehensive review of a particular area...
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happiness,' we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the … Europe inequality makes the poor unhappy, as well as the leftists. This favors the hypothesis that inequality affects … right). The results help explain the greater popular demand for government to fight inequality in Europe relative to the US …
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and Europe. Rates and trends in absolute mobility varied dramatically across countries during this period: the US and … cross-cohort income inequality, were the primary driver of differing mobility rates across countries. We also demonstrate …
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and Europe. Rates and trends in absolute mobility varied dramatically across countries during this period: the US and … cross-cohort income inequality, were the primary driver of differing mobility rates across countries. We also demonstrate …
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We study the effect of the level of inequality in society on individual well being using a total of 123,668 answers to … inequality is high, even after controlling for individual income, a large set of personal characteristics, and year and country … (or, in the case of the US, state) dummies. The effect, however, appears to be stronger in Europe than in the US. In …
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inequality and wage mobility in Europe. Decomposing inequality into within and between group inequality, we analyse to what … extent wage inequality and mobility can be explained by observable characteristics. Furthermore, we investigate which … of institutions for wage inequality, wage mobility, and wage transitions. We find that overall, mobility reduces wage …
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happiness,' we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the … Europe inequality makes the poor unhappy, as well as the leftists. This favors the hypothesis that inequality affects … right). The results help explain the greater popular demand for government to fight inequality in Europe relative to the US …
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