Income mobility and economic inequality from a regional perspective

  1. Prieto Rodríguez, Juan 1
  2. Rodríguez Hernández, Juan Gabriel 2
  3. Salas del Mármol, Rafael 3
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

  2. 2 Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
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    Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01v5cv687

  3. 3 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

Revista:
Papeles de trabajo del Instituto de Estudios Fiscales. Serie economía

ISSN: 1578-0252

Año de publicación: 2008

Número: 16

Páginas: 3-18

Tipo: Artículo

Otras publicaciones en: Papeles de trabajo del Instituto de Estudios Fiscales. Serie economía

Resumen

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.