Income Mobility

Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen P.

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“…It increases more noticeably at the beginning of 1990s (particularly the 1-IR index), but then returns to previous levels towards the end of the sample. The comparison of this evidence with that found in the literature is difficult, since many studies focus on income mobility during a longer time horizon (see for example Hungerford (1993) and those cited in Jäntti and Jenkins (2015)). However, Gittleman and Joyce (1999) considers similar mobility indices for 1, 5 and 10-year windows between 1969 and 1990.…”

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“…My paper relates to some methodological aspects of this literature, 7 but I focus on the effects of taxes on measures of household's mobility across the income distribution as opposed to the individual's response of reported taxable income (for this purpose I employ a different type of data, the PSID, that allows me to control for relevant demographic factors). My paper relates to an extensive literature on income mobility surveyed in Fields and Ok (1999) and Jäntti and Jenkins (2015).…”

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“…8 During this paper, I will refer to income mobility as intragenerational mobility. Jäntti and Jenkins (2015) also survey the literature on intergenerational or social mobility (the degree of association between parents and children income). There has been a recent increase in the research aiming to understand the degree of intergenerational mobility and its factors.…”

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“…A value of 0 indicates perfect immobility (origin independence). Fields and Ok (1999) or Jäntti and Jenkins (2015) for exhaustive reviews of the different tools available to measure income mobility.…”

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The Impact of Taxes on Income Mobility

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This paper investigates how taxes affect relative mobility in the income distribution in the US. Household panel data drawn from the PSID between 1967 and 1996 is employed to analyse the relationship between marginal tax rates and the probability of staying in the same income decile. Exogenous variation in marginal tax rates is identified by using counterfactual rates based on legislated changes in the tax schedule. I find that higher marginal tax rates reduce income mobility.An increase in one percentage point in marginal tax rates causes a decline of around 0.8% in the probability of changing to a different income decile. Tax reforms that reduce marginal rates by 7 percentage points are estimated to account for around a tenth of the average movements in the income distribution in a year.Additional results suggest that the effect of taxes on income mobility differs according to the level of human capital and that it is particularly significant when considering mobility at the bottom of the distribution.

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The Impact of Taxes on Income Mobility

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“…Proponents of this emphasize the role played by mobility in the distributional effects of growth. While both the measurement of growth pro-poorness and the measurement of mobility are quite developed (see for instance Fields and Ok, 1999, Fields, 2008, Jäntti and Jenkins, 2015, for significant reviews), the analysis of the impact of mobility on growth pro-poorness is yet to be developed to our knowledge.…”

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Intertemporal Pro-Poorness

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A long-lasting scientific and policy debate queries the impact of growth on distribution. A specific branch of the micro-oriented literature, known as 'pro-poor growth', seeks in particular to understand the impact of growth on poverty. Much of that literature supposes that the distributional impact should be measured in an anonymous fashion. The income dynamics and mobility impacts of growth are thus ignored. The paper extends this framework in two important manners. First, the paper uses an 'intertemporal pro-poorness' formulation that accounts separately for anonymous and mobility growth impacts. Second, the paper's treatment of mobility encompasses both the benefit of "mobility as equalizer" and the variability cost of poverty transiency. Several decompositions are proposed to measure the importance of each of these impacts of growth on the pro-poorness of distributional changes. The framework is applied to panel data on 23 European countries drawn from the 'European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions' (EU-SILC) survey.Keywords: pro-poorness, income mobility, growth, poverty dynamics.JEL Classification: D31, D63, I32 * We are very grateful to Philippe Van Kerm and Roberto Zelli for helpful suggestions and comments.

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Measuring pure health inequality and mobility during a health insurance expansion: Evidence from Mexico

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The association of insurance expansions and the distribution of health status is still a matter we know little about. This paper draws upon new measures of pure (univariate) inequality and mobility which accommodate categorical data to understand how an expansion of public insurance may be related to both health inequality and mobility. These measures require a definition of individual's status that is either "downward looking" or "upward looking". Using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey, a nationally representative longitudinal survey, we find that the distribution of health has worsened in Mexico between 2002 and 2009, although the change is only consistent for an upward looking definition status. Together with the lack of mobility in self-reported health, we can thus conclude that Mexico has become more rigid over time despite the rapid public health expansion that took place over the 2000s decade. While further research on the potential drivers of health inequalities is needed, our findings suggest that insurance coverage alone may be not enough to reduce health disparities and promote health mobility. Indeed, health inequality and mobility likely depend on a myriad of factors beyond health care.

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Income Mobility

Cited by 217 publications

References 176 publications

The Impact of Taxes on Income Mobility

The Impact of Taxes on Income Mobility

Intertemporal Pro-Poorness

Measuring pure health inequality and mobility during a health insurance expansion: Evidence from Mexico

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