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Income inequality statistics ignore temporal changes in household income.
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Income Mobility and Income Inequality in Scottish Agriculture [PDF]
AbstractThe paper explores the distributional consequences of farm income mobility in Scotland, focusing on the extent to which farm income inequality is a chronic as opposed to a temporary phenomenon and on the nature of the dynamic processes driving changes in farm income inequality over time.
Allanson, Paul +2 more
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COVID-19 and social distancing: Disparities in mobility adaptation between income groups
In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, governments have encouraged and ordered citizens to practice social distancing, particularly by working and studying at home.
Kentaro Iio +4 more
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Does life satisfaction vary with income inequality and social mobility?
This article provides a novel analysis using the Global Social Mobility Index (GSMI) in order to explore whether the relationship between income inequality and life satisfaction differs depending on the level of social mobility.
Savinee Suriyanrattakorn, Chia-Lin Chang
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The Meaning and Measurement of Income Mobility [PDF]
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Fields, Gary S., Ok, Efe A.
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The life course dynamics of affluence. [PDF]
Social science research finds that the only group to have experienced real economic gains over the past four decades is the top 20 percent of the income distribution.
Thomas A Hirschl, Mark R Rank
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Income Mobility in Costa Rica, 2001-2007
In this paper we study year-to-year intra-generational income mobility in Costa Rica. To do so we use a panel data set constructed from the Household Surveys for Multiple Purposes (2001-2007) that allows us to follow the same households and persons from ...
Samuel Rowe +2 more
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Income Mobility, Income Risk, and Welfare [PDF]
AbstractThis paper presents a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility, and welfare, with ex ante identical individuals facing a stochastic income process and market incompleteness, implying that they are unable to insure against persistent shocks to income.
Krebs, Tom +2 more
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Is increasing income the only reason for rural labor mobility?—A case study of Heilongjiang, China
IntroductionIt is widely known that rural labor mobility is of the utmost importance for the livelihoods of families in rural areas of developing countries. While it increases the income and overall labor productivity of rural households, it also creates
Yanzhi Hao, Jia Chi, Gangyi Wang
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Income mobility means different things to different people. This chapter explains the six different mobility concepts used in the literature, reviews the various indices used in the mobility literature to measure these concepts, summarizes the difference the use of different mobility concepts and measures makes in practice, presents the axiomatic ...
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