The measurement of income mobility : an introduction to the literature, February, 1996
The measurement of income mobility : an introduction to the literature, February, 1996
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10.1007/978-94-011-4413-1_20
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1996
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Gary S. Fields;Efe A. Ok
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作者：
Gary S. Fields;Efe A. Ok
在福利经济学的一般领域中，对收入分配的平等性进行评估是研究最广泛的课题之一。因此，有大量的工作专门致力于衡量一个特定社会所经历的福利和收入不平等的问题。2然而，这些研究大多数是在静态条件下进行的，所谓的收入分配的“快照”被视为分析的原始数据。然而，收入分配的静态评估只能提供一个不完整的画面，因为在大多数情况下，社会福利当然也取决于收入分配的动态。3这一基本见解，沿着纵向数据集的增加，导致了大量和迅速扩大的文献对收入流动性的测量。本章概述了这些文献的重点。
Evaluation of distributions of income on the basis of equality is one of the most extensively studied topics in the general field of welfare economics. There is thus an enormous body of work devoted exclusively to the problem of the measurement of welfare and income inequality experienced by a given society.2However, the majority of these studies are conducted in static terms, where the so-called “snapshots” of the income distributions are taken as the primitives of the analysis. Nevertheless,staticevaluations of income distributions can provide only an incomplete picture, for, in most instances, the social welfare would certainly depend on thedynamicsof income distribution as well.3This basic insight, along with the increased availability of longitudinal data sets, has led to a massive and rapidly expanding literature on the measurement ofincome mobility. This chapter surveys the highlights of this literature.