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Assessing Individual Income Growth
October 2016
Abstract: We develop methods for describing distributions of income growth across individuals and for comparing changes in growth distributions over time. The methods include graphical devices (‘income growth profiles’) and dominance conditions, and also summary indices, together with associated methods of estimation and inference. Taking an explicitly longitudinal perspective, our approach illuminates clearly who are the gainers and the losers, and also provides distributionally-sensitive assessments—ones that allow the income growth for different individuals to be weighted differently. Our empirical application shows that the pattern of income growth in Britain over the period 1992–6 was less pro-poor than that for 1998–2002, and not significantly different from the pattern for 2001–5.
| Type: | Journal article |
| Theme(s): | Income dynamics and mobility |
| Keywords: | income mobility, individual income growth, mobility profiles, pro-poor growth, progressive income growth |
| 10.1111/ecca.12205 | |
| RePEc:bla:econom:v:83:y:2016:i:332:p:679-703 |
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Jenkins, S.P. & Van Kerm, P. (2016), 'Assessing Individual Income Growth', Economica, 83(332), 679-703.
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Author = {Jenkins, Stephen P. and Van Kerm, Philippe},
Title = {Assessing Individual Income Growth},
Journal = {Economica},
Volume = {83},
Number = {332},
Pages = {679-703},
Month = oct,
Year = {2016}
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Jenkins, S.P. & Van Kerm, P. (2011), 'Trends in individual income growth: measurement methods and British evidence', LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 58209, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Jenkins, S.P. & Van Kerm, P. (2011), 'Trends in individual income growth: measurement methods and British evidence', ISER Working Paper 2011-06, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.
Jenkins, S.P. & Van Kerm, P. (2011), 'Trends in individual income growth: measurement methods and British evidence', CEPS/INSTEAD Working Paper 2011-21, CEPS/INSTEAD, Differdange, Luxembourg.
Jenkins, S.P. & Van Kerm, P. (2011), 'Trends in individual income growth: measurement methods and British evidence', IZA Discussion Paper 5510, IZA Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany.
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Trends in individual income growth: Measurement methods and British evidence. Center for Research in Economic Analysis (CREA), Luxembourg, 2013.
Trends in individual income growth: Measurement methods and British evidence. Oslo Fiscal Studies Seminar, Oslo, 2012.
Trends in individual income growth: Measurement methods and British evidence. Geneva, 2012.
Trends in individual income growth: Measurement methods and British evidence. Palermo, 2011.
Trends in individual income growth: Measurement methods and British evidence. Fourth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), Catania, 2011.
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