Local versus Global Assessment of Mobility*

Schluter, Christian; Trede, Mark

doi:10.1111/1468-2354.t01-1-00111

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“…See for example Nickell (1997). On this basis one might expect that earnings mobility among persons not changing jobs to be greater in Britain than Germany, but this may not be so: it is now well-established that Germany has higher earnings mobility than the USA (Burkhauser et al, 1998;Schluter and Trede, 1999).…”

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Why Are Child Poverty Rates Higher in Britain than in Germany? A Longitudinal Perspective

Jenkins¹,

Schluter²

2003

The Journal of Human Resources

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We analyse why child poverty rates were much higher in Britain than in Western Germany during the 1990s, using a framework that focuses on poverty transition rates. Child poverty exit rates were significantly lower, and poverty entry rates significantly higher, in Britain. We decompose these cross-national differences into differences in the prevalence of 'trigger events' (changes from one year to the next in household composition, household labour market attachment, and labour earnings), and differences in the chances of making a poverty transition conditional on experiencing a trigger event. It is the latter which are most important in accounting for the cross-national differences in poverty exit and entry rates.1

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Why Are Child Poverty Rates Higher in Britain than in Germany? A Longitudinal Perspective

Jenkins¹,

Schluter²

2003

The Journal of Human Resources

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“…Van Kerm (2004) compares Belgium, Western Germany and the United States. Buchinsky et al (2003), Fields (2010), Cohen (1999) and Cohen and Dupas (2000) study France and the United States. Italy and the United States are compared by Flinn (2002).…”

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An International Comparison of Lifetime Inequality: How Continental Europe Resembles North America

Bowlus

Robin

2012

Journal of the European Economic Association

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We compare earnings inequality and mobility across the United States, Canada, France, Germany and the United Kingdom during the late 1990s. A flexible model of earnings dynamics that isolates positional mobility within a stable earnings distribution is estimated. Earnings trajectories are then simulated, and lifetime annuity value distributions are constructed. Earnings mobility and employment risk are found to be positively correlated with base‐year inequality. Taken together they produce more equalization in countries with high cross‐section inequality such that the countries in our sample have more similar lifetime inequality levels than cross‐section measures suggest.

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“…In a similar spirit, Schluter and Trede (2003) find that income mobility is larger in Germany than in the United States, because higher mobility in the bottom of the distribution in Germany is combined with an implicitly higher weighting by the mobility index at the bottom (inequality indices by construction do not give the same weight to the entire income spectrum).…”

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More unequal, but more mobile?

Garnero

Hijzen

Martin

2016

OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers

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For further information: Alexander Hijzen (Alexander.HIJZEN@oecd.org, +33 1 45 24 92 61), Andrea Garnero (Andrea.GARNERO@oecd.org, +33 1 45 24 96 92) and Sébastien Martin (Sebastien.MARTIN@oecd.org, +33 1 45 24 85 64). www.oecd.org/els/workingpapers JT03390453 Complete document available on OLIS in its original formatThis document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected labour market, social policy and migration studies prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language -English or Frenchwith a summary in the other. ABSTRACTThis paper provides comprehensive cross-country evidence on the relationship between earnings inequality and intra-generational mobility by simulating individual earnings and employment trajectories in the long-term using short panel data for 24 OECD countries. On average across countries, about 25% of earnings inequality in a given year evens out over the life cycle as a result of mobility. Moreover, mobility is not systematically higher in countries with more earnings inequality in general. However, a positive and statistically significant relationship is found only in the bottom of the distribution. This reflects the role of mobility between employment and unemployment and not that of mobility up and down the earnings ladder. RESUMÉCe document fournit une analyse approfondie de la relation entre l'inégalité des revenus d'activité et la mobilité intra-générationnelle en simulant les trajectoires professionnelles à l'aide de données de panel sur une courte période pour 24 pays de l'OCDE. En moyenne et pour l'ensemble des pays, environ 25% de l'inégalité des revenus observée une année donnée s'égalise au cours du cycle de vie du fait de la mobilité. De plus, la mobilité n'est pas systématiquement plus élevée dans les pays généralement plus inégalitaires en termes de revenus. Toutefois, on observe une relation positive et statistiquement significative entre inégalité et mobilité dans la partie inférieure de la distribution. Cela reflète le rôle de la mobilité entre emploi et chômage, et non celui de la mobilité ascendante et descendante sur l'échelle des salaires.

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Local versus Global Assessment of Mobility*

Cited by 27 publications

References 22 publications

Why Are Child Poverty Rates Higher in Britain than in Germany? A Longitudinal Perspective

Why Are Child Poverty Rates Higher in Britain than in Germany? A Longitudinal Perspective

An International Comparison of Lifetime Inequality: How Continental Europe Resembles North America

More unequal, but more mobile?

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