Income Mobility, Income Risk, and Welfare

This paper presents a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility, and welfare, with ex ante identical individuals facing a stochastic income process and market incompleteness, implying that they are unable to insure against persistent shocks to income. We show ho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Krebs, Tom, Krishna, Pravin, Maloney, William F.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34867