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Chapter 2
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- 1.) Dimensions of inequality? 2.) Intergenerational mobility (Corak 2009):Correlation between ... and .... ! The higher it is, the less .....! 3.) Great-Gatsby-curve 4.) Intergenerational earnings elasticity: 1.) e.g. Income, wealth 2.) Earnings of your father and your own earnings. The higher it is, the less social mobility. (very low: almost doesn't matter which family you're born into) 3.) The more unequal, the less social mobility 4.) The lower IE-Elasticity the lower inequality
- 1.) Principles of Inequality: 2.) Strategy to compare different numbers of individuals and different aggregate incomes 1.) Anonimity , Population,Relative Income and Dalton 2.) Apply Population to make population numbers equal. Apply rel. income to make aggregate income equal and apply Dalton to see if you can obtain one distribution from the other.
- 1.) Salai-i-Martin: Difference to other studies regarding global inequality: 2.) Methodology 3.) Results 4.) Conclusion 1.) Just because within country has risen, doesn't mean that global has risen as well!! Movement of China (ans some extent India) from poor to middle income country has led to fall in global inequality between 1980 and 1998! 2.) Survey data for all countries at time t to estimate shares for individual quintiles 3.) Distribution has shifted to the right: fraction of world population who are very poor gets smaller over time. 4.)Decrease in global inequality. Most of that because across-country inequality has decreased!! Reason for difference between authors: different samples and data sources.