Income mobility and economic inequality from a regional perspective



Título del documento: Income mobility and economic inequality from a regional perspective
Revue: Journal of applied economics
Base de datos: CLASE
Número de sistema: 000399377
ISSN: 1667-6726
Autores: 1
2
3
Instituciones: 1Universidad de Oviedo, Departamento de Economía, Oviedo. España
2Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales, Madrid. España
3Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Madrid. España
Año:
Periodo: Nov
Volumen: 13
Número: 2
Paginación: 335-350
País: Argentina
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Aplicado
Resumen en inglés A necessary condition for mobility to reduce the popular desire for redistribution is a significant positive correlation between inequality and mobility. In Prieto et al. (2008), a significant positive relationship was found at the national level. The objective of this study is to establish empirically whether such a relationship is maintained at the regional level. The indices are calculated for the set of EU regions using the European Community Household Panel survey. Total mobility is decomposed into three terms: growth, dispersion and exchange. We show that this positive relationship is robust by estimating a hierarchical linear model
Disciplinas: Economía,
Sociología
Palabras clave: Econometría,
Problemas sociales,
Movilidad social,
Desigualdad económica,
Distribución del ingreso
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