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Mobility and Inequality Trends

2023 ᛫


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Summary


Research on Economic Inequality is a well-established publication of quality research. This 30th volume features insightful and original papers from the 9th Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) meeting.


Mobility and Inequality Trends begins by illustrating the trajectory of income inequality in the world over the course of recent decades before the second paper makes a crucial distinction between ‘bad’ inequality, which is detrimental to society, and ‘good’ inequality, which is beneficial. Focus then shifts to bad inequality, one paper covering the relationship between intergenerational elasticity and inequality of opportunity, and the second studying the relationship between intergenerational mobility and life satisfaction in Spain. The volume then progresses to defend the use of intermediate views of inequality when constructing indicators of social welfare obtained through the use of average income and the Gini coefficient before investigating the advantage of using a multifaceted approach to income mobility measurement. To conclude Mobility and Inequality Trends presents an intensive exploration of income inequality in China and then studies the effects of the policy measure “Minimum Living Income. Finally, the last paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on economic stimulus policies.

Table of contents

  • Chapter 1. Explaining Income Inequality Trends: An Integrated Approach; Petra Sauer, Narasimha D. Rao, and Shonali Pachauri

  • Chapter 2. On Measuring “Good” and “Bad” Income Inequality; Gordon Anderson
  • Chapter 3. How much of Intergenerational Immobility can be Attributed to Differences in Childhood Circumstances?; Rafael Carranza
  • Chapter 4. Intergenerational Mobility and Life Satisfaction in Spain; Amaia Palencia-Esteban and Pedro Salas-Rojo
  • Chapter 5. ‘Mingling’ the Gini Index and the Mean Income to Rank Countries by Inequality and Social Welfare; Ivica Urban
  • Chapter 6. A Multifaceted Approach to Earnings Mobility Comparisons; John A. Bishop, Juan Gabriel Rodríguez, and Lester A. Zeager
  • Chapter 7. On Income Inequality in Urban Areas in China during the Period 2002-2013: Comparing the Case of Urban Locals with that of Rural Migrants; Joseph Deutsch, Pundarik Mukhopadhaya, Jacques Silber, and Jing Yang
  • Chapter 8. National vs Regional: Distributional and Poverty Effects of Minimum Income Schemes in Spain; Nuria Badenes Plá and Borja Gambau
  • Chapter 9. COVID-19 Pandemic and Economic Stimulus Policies: Evidence from 156 Economies; Xingyuan Yao

About the authors



Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, FRSA, is Reader in Economics and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Globalisation Research at Queen Mary University of London, UK. She specialises in the economics of growth and development and the measurement of inequality and poverty.

Juan Gabriel Rodríguez is a Professor of Economics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, and member of EQUALITAS, ICAE and CEDESOG. Previously, he was Head of Research Studies of the Spanish Fiscal Studies Institute (2008-10). His fields of research are inequality, equality of opportunity, economic growth and social welfare.