Does income mobility equalize longer-term incomes? New measures of an old concept |
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Authors: | Gary S Fields |
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Institution: | 1.ILR School,Cornell University,Ithaca,USA;2.Institute for the Study of Labor,Bonn,Germany |
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Abstract: | This paper develops a new class of measures of mobility as an equalizer of longer-term incomes—a concept different from other
notions such as mobility as time-independence, positional movement, share movement, income flux, and directional income movement.
A number of properties are specified leading to a class of indices, one easily-implementable member of which is applied to
data for the USA and France. Using this index, income mobility is found to have equalized longer-term earnings among US men
in the 1970s but not in the 1980s or 1990s. In France, though, income mobility was equalizing throughout, and it has attained
its maximum in the most recent period. |
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