Artikel

Getting ahead, falling behind and standing still: Income mobility in Chile

This paper analyses household income mobility in Chile between 1996 and 2001. Compared to industrialized and most developing countries, mobility has been quite high. The purpose of this paper is to apply a binomial probit model and split analysis into assessment of individuals and households on the relative income distribution. Main results are that moving from unemployment to employment significantly increases probability of moving up and decreases probability of moving down. Technical-professional education is promoting move up on the relative income scale and it is protecting movement down. An important result is that high-school education decreases probability of degradation.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Estudios de Economía ; ISSN: 0718-5286 ; Volume: 38 ; Year: 2011 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 243-258 ; Santiago de Chile: Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Economía

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Thema
mobility
poverty
household structure
Chile
Einkommensverteilung
Haushaltseinkommen
Soziale Mobilität
Chile

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Castro, Rodrigo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Economía
(wo)
Santiago de Chile
(wann)
2011

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Castro, Rodrigo
  • Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Economía

Entstanden

  • 2011

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