Comparing Income Mobility in Germany and the United States Using Generalized Entropy Mobility Measures
Authors:
- Esfandiar MaasoumiEMEsfandiar Maasoumi
- Mark TredeMTMark Trede
- 1 August 2001
- journal article
- Published by MIT Press in Review of Economics and Statistics
- Vol. 83 (3) , 551-559
Abstract
Based on a derivation of the asymptotic sampling distribution of the generalized entropy mobility measures, this paper provides a statistically rigorous analysis of income mobility in Germany and the United States using the panel data set PSID-SOEP equivalent data file. Several alternative measures of income aggregation, inequality measures, and groupings are considered to establish robustness. We find that, to a high degree of statistical confidence, post-government income mobility is much higher in Germany. Possible reasons for these findings are revealed through disaggregation of the samples by population subgroups. © 2001 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyKeywords
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