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

This paper analyses household income mobility in Chile between 1996 3nd 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...

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Autor principal: Castro,Rodrigo
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Publicado: Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía 2011
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-528620110001000102011-07-25Getting ahead, falling behind and standing still: Income mobility in ChileCastro,Rodrigo Mobility Poverty Household structure Chile This paper analyses household income mobility in Chile between 1996 3nd 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.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad de Chile. Departamento de EconomíaEstudios de economía v.38 n.1 20112011-06-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-52862011000100010en10.4067/S0718-52862011000100010
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Poverty
Household structure
Chile
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Poverty
Household structure
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Castro,Rodrigo
Getting ahead, falling behind and standing still: Income mobility in Chile
description This paper analyses household income mobility in Chile between 1996 3nd 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.
author Castro,Rodrigo
author_facet Castro,Rodrigo
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title Getting ahead, falling behind and standing still: Income mobility in Chile
title_short Getting ahead, falling behind and standing still: Income mobility in Chile
title_full Getting ahead, falling behind and standing still: Income mobility in Chile
title_fullStr Getting ahead, falling behind and standing still: Income mobility in Chile
title_full_unstemmed Getting ahead, falling behind and standing still: Income mobility in Chile
title_sort getting ahead, falling behind and standing still: income mobility in chile
publisher Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía
publishDate 2011
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