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Has intergenerational progress stalled? : income growth over five generations of Americans
Corinth, Kevin; Larrimore, Jeff - 2024
We find that each of the past four generations of Americans was better off than the previous one, using a post-tax, post-transfer income measure constructed annually from 1963-2022 based on the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement. At age 36-40, Millennials had a real...
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Social mobility and economic development
Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2021
We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting procedure that considers the participation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012671883
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Has intergenerational progress stalled? : income growth over five generations of Americans
Corinth, Kevin; Larrimore, Jeff - 2024
We find that each of the past four generations of Americans was better off than the previous one, using a post-tax, post-transfer income measure constructed annually from 1963-2022 based on the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement. At age 36-40, Millennials had a real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014470010
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Who has benefited from economic growth in the United States since 1969? : The case of children
Jencks, Christopher (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002004086
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Who Has Benefited from Economic Growth in the United States Since 1969? The Case of Children
Jencks, Christopher; Mayer, Susan E.; Swingle, Joseph - 2007
One can use the Census Bureau's income statistics to show either that low-income children were considerably worse off …-income children gained very little or a great deal between 1969 and 1999. Resolving these disagreements requires agreeing on the best …, we investigate trends in children's well-being using more direct measures of material well-being, such as housing …
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The poverty reduction capacity of private and public transfers in transition
Verme, Paolo - 2010
The transitional economies of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) have enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth and poverty reduction between 2000 and 2007 and this occurred in concomitance with significant increases in private and public transfers to households. The paper assesses the relative...
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Chapter 23. Labor and Credit Networks in Developing Economies
Munshi, Kaivan - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 1223-1254). 2011
The past decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the economic analysis of networks. This chapter is concerned with the role played by labor and credit networks in shaping economic activity in developing countries. The problem of identifying network effects on economic outcomes is first...
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Policies to promote growth and economic efficiency in Mexico
Arias, Javier; Azuara, Oliver; Bernal, Pedro; Heckman, … - 2010
This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of...
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Income mobility in times of economic growth : the case of Viet Nam
Brand-Weiner, Ian; Francavilla, Francesca - 2015
This paper analyses income mobility in Viet Nam from 2004 to 2008. The concept of income mobility is important for developed and developing economies, especially for those, such as Viet Nam, witnessing a stable persistent economic growth and profound structural transformations. Income mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580373
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Multiple politico-economic regimes, inequality and growth
Desdoigts, Alain; Moizeau, Fabien - 2001
In this paper, we abandon the stylized median voter and study (i) how distributional tensions can act in many different ways depending on social affinity and on the prospect of upward or downwardmobility of the different income classes, (ii) income distribution dynamics, intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615432