Using Pseudo-panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America

This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobil...

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Main Authors:	Cuesta, Jose, Nopo, Hugo, Pizzolitto, Georgina
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5553

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spelling	okr-10986-55532021-04-23T14:02:22Z Using Pseudo-panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America Cuesta, Jose Nopo, Hugo Pizzolitto, Georgina Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest very high levels of time-dependent unconditional immobility for the region. However, the introduction of socioeconomic and personal factors reduces the estimate of income immobility by around 30 percent. There are also large variations in country-specific income mobility (estimated to explain some additional 10 percent of inter-temporal income variation). Analyzing the determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender, and education of the household head, the latter subject to distinctive effects across levels of attainment and transition in and out of poverty. 2012-03-30T07:33:23Z 2012-03-30T07:33:23Z 2011 Journal Article Review of Income and Wealth 00346586 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5553 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Latin America & Caribbean
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description	This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest very high levels of time-dependent unconditional immobility for the region. However, the introduction of socioeconomic and personal factors reduces the estimate of income immobility by around 30 percent. There are also large variations in country-specific income mobility (estimated to explain some additional 10 percent of inter-temporal income variation). Analyzing the determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender, and education of the household head, the latter subject to distinctive effects across levels of attainment and transition in and out of poverty.
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author	Cuesta, Jose Nopo, Hugo Pizzolitto, Georgina
author_facet	Cuesta, Jose Nopo, Hugo Pizzolitto, Georgina
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title	Using Pseudo-panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America
title_short	Using Pseudo-panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America
title_full	Using Pseudo-panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America
title_fullStr	Using Pseudo-panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America
title_full_unstemmed	Using Pseudo-panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America
title_sort	using pseudo-panels to measure income mobility in latin america
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Using Pseudo-panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America

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