Comments on: Rising Inequality Has Not Been Offset by Mobility

By: Clocking Out: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Edition « Main Street

Clocking Out: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Edition « Main Street — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:53:39 +0000

[...] No, economic mobility is not offsetting inequality. [...]

By: Inequality and mobility at the top « Consider the Evidence

Inequality and mobility at the top « Consider the Evidence — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 03:36:23 +0000

[...] is earnings records from the Social Security Administration. Both indicate that there has been no increase in income mobility in recent decades (see also [...]

By: Mobility and Inequality « PoliSci@UST

Mobility and Inequality « PoliSci@UST — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:30:53 +0000

[...] Lane Kenworthy, at his Consider the Evidence Blog, has a very interesting post that will likely elicit some heated discussions with our Republican [...]

By: piglet

piglet — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:33:36 +0000

Intergenerational Mobility in Europe and North America

http://www.suttontrust.com/reports/IntergenerationalMobility.pdf

Key findings:

- International comparisons indicate that intergenerational mobility in Britain is of the same order of magnitude as in the US, but that these countries are substantially less mobile than Canada and the Nordic countries. Germany also looks to be more mobile than the UK and US, but a small sample size prevents us drawing a firm conclusion.
- Intergenerational mobility fell markedly over time in Britain, with there being less mobility for a cohort of people born in 1970 compared to a cohort born in 1958. No similar change is observed in the US.

By: links for 2008-07-14 at Jacob Christensen

links for 2008-07-14 at Jacob Christensen — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:30:56 +0000

[...] Rising Inequality Has Not Been Offset by Mobility « Consider the Evidence The fact that all three data sources suggest the same conclusion doesn’t necessarily mean it’s correct, … Rising income and earnings inequality in the United States does not appear to have been offset by increased mobility. (tags: usa economics economicpolicy inequality statistics) [...]

By: Arnold Kling

Arnold Kling — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:52:37 +0000

Note that the Bradbury-Katz methodology forces mobility to be a zero-sum game. They take family X and family Y in 1969 and ask whether in 1979 X is higher than Y.

Other studies have looked at families X and Y in the income distribution of 1979, where it is possible that both families have moved up and been replaced lower down by family Z, which might be a young household or new immigrants.

When you use the second approach, you get a lot more upward mobility. I’m not saying that one approach is right and the other is wrong. It depends what point you’re trying to prove.

By: The Ambrosini Critique » Blog Archive » Inequality and mobility

The Ambrosini Critique » Blog Archive » Inequality and mobility — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:21:18 +0000

[...] Kenworthy has stopped making sense. Thoma and Talking Heads fans rejoice. [...]