The Measurement of Income Mobility: An Introduction to the Literature

Fields, Gary S.; Ok, Efe A.

doi:10.1007/978-94-011-4413-1_20

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“…Jalan and Ravallion 2000;Dercon and Krishnan, 2000;Scott, 2000;Justino andLichfield, 2002, McCulloch andCalandrino, 2002;Woolard and Klasen, 2004;Fields et al, 2006). This paper will address household income mobility.…”

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Getting ahead, falling behind and standing still: Income mobility in Chile

Castro

2011

Estudios de Economía

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“…or is economic growth benefiting individuals that were initially poor? In order to answer such questions, it is necessary to perform income mobility analyses, tracking the evolution of individual incomes over time and seeing who are the winners and losers during the growth process (Fields et al, 2006).…”

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Getting ahead, falling behind and standing still: Income mobility in Chile

Castro

2011

Estudios de Economía

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“…In this paper, we shall treat solely the issue of intra- A considerable amount of studies on income mobility relies on the traditional approach of constructing transition matrices which are useful tools for summarizing the mobility content of distributional transformations (Fields & Ok, 1999). The main disadvantage of using transition matrices is that they neglect the individual income variations that take place within a specified income group.…”

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Education, Labour Market Status and Household Income Dynamics in Romania

Militarua¹

2016

European Proceedings of Social &Amp; Behavioural Sciences

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During the last decade Romania experienced considerable economic and social instability and household income has been subject to changes both in level and structure, though not equally for all households. It seems that low income households are more exposed to the risk of losing parts of their income during economic downturn, but also middle or high income households may be affected. Household characteristics, such as education and labour market status, are amongst the main determinants of household income level and can be associated with income dynamics. This paper aims at studying the role played by education and labour market status in the dynamics of household income in Romania in the period between 2007 and 2010. Our approach is twofold; we study the distribution and the income mobility patterns over time between income classes, paying attention to education and labour market status of household members. We attempt to analyse the extent to which education and labour market status count for the evolution of household income. A special focus has been on low income households. We base our analysis on EU-SILC data and we employ growth incidence curve analysis and transition matrices to determine the movement of households along the income distribution. Our results show that income dynamics is strongly related to education, as almost two thirds of the low income households are poorly educated and remain trapped in the same relative position on the income distribution over the years. Precarious labour market attachment as well is a drawback in income mobility.

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“…We follow the major branch in the literature on income mobility measurement by working with a set of observations of individuals' incomes in two periods (see, e.g. Fields and Ok, 1999a). This approach has the main advantage that we use the income data in the way they are reported in panel data sets; we do not aggregate them into arbitrary quantiles and compute our index directly on the basis of the individual data.…”

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History-dependent growth incidence: a characterization and an application to the economic crisis in Italy

Palmisano

gaer

2016

Oxf. Econ. Pap.

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We propose a characterization of an aggregate measure of growth that takes into account the initial economic conditions of individuals. Our measure is a weighted average of individuals' income growth with weights that are decreasing with the rank of the individual in the initial income distribution. We apply our theoretical framework to evaluate the growth processes experienced by the Italian population. Even when we correct for the differences in mean income growth, and focus on the distribution of growth only, the 2008-2010 growth process was the worst of the last decade.

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The Measurement of Income Mobility: An Introduction to the Literature

Cited by 180 publications

References 71 publications

Getting ahead, falling behind and standing still: Income mobility in Chile

Getting ahead, falling behind and standing still: Income mobility in Chile

Education, Labour Market Status and Household Income Dynamics in Romania

History-dependent growth incidence: a characterization and an application to the economic crisis in Italy

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