Income mobility and economic inequality from a regional perspective
- Prieto Rodríguez, Juan 1
- Rodríguez Hernández, Juan Gabriel 2
- Salas del Mármol, Rafael 3
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Universidad de Oviedo
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Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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ISSN: 1578-0252
Datum der Publikation: 2008
Nummer: 16
Seiten: 3-18
Art: Artikel
Andere Publikationen in: Papeles de trabajo del Instituto de Estudios Fiscales. Serie economía
Zusammenfassung
Political redistributive models state that the higher the social mobility, the lower the demand for redistribution and, therefore, the higher the ex-post inequality. The objective of this study is to establish empirically if there is a significant positive relationship between social mobility and income inequality at regional level. The indices are calculated for the set of EU regions, using the European Community Household Panel survey. Additionally, total mobility is decomposed into three terms: growth, dispersion and exchange. By estimating a random coefficients model, it is shown that a positive relationship at the regional level exists.