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Income Mobility and Welfare / Tom Krebs, Pravin Krishna, William Maloney.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Krebs, Tom.
- Series:
- IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/024
- IMF Working Papers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social service.
- Income distribution.
- Welfare economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (29 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This paper develops a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility and welfare. Individual income is assumed to follow a stochastic process with two (unobserved) components, an i.i.d. component representing measurement error or transitory income shocks and an AR(1) component representing persistent changes in income. We use a tractable consumption-saving model with labor income risk and incomplete markets to relate income dynamics to consumption and welfare, and derive analytical expressions for income mobility and welfare as a function of the various parameters of the underlying income process. The empirical application of our framework using data on individual incomes from Mexico provides striking results. Much of measured income mobility is driven by measurement error or transitory income shocks and therefore (almost) welfare-neutral. A smaller part of measured income mobility is due to either welfare-reducing income risk or welfare-enhancing catching-up of low-income individuals with high-income individuals, both of which have economically significant effects on social welfare. Decomposing mobility into its fundamental components is thus seen to be crucial from the standpoint of welfare evaluation.
- Contents:
- Cover; Income Mobility and Welfare; Abstract; I. Introduction; II. Income and Mobility; II.1. Income Process; II.2. Mobility; III. Econometric Implementation; III.1. Estimation; IV. Data; V. Results; VI. Welfare Analysis; VI.1. Consumption; VI.2. Mobility and Welfare; VII. Conclusions; References; Tables; Table 1: Summary Statistics: 1987-2003; Table 2: Mincer Regression; Table 3: Estimation of Mobility Parameters; Table 4: Mobility Analysis; Table 5: Welfare Analysis
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781475596670
- 1475596677
- 9781475567564
- 1475567561
- 9781299264991
- 1299264999
- 9781475536348
- 1475536348
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