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Income Distribution: Stagnant or Mobile?

Bruce Bartlett
Affiliation Unknown

July 13, 2005

Abstract:
Popular discussion of income and wealth distribution tend to focus on snapshots of distribution at a given moment in time, making it appear more unequal than it really is. This paper looks at mobility in and out of income and wealth distribution classes. It finds that all empirical measures of mobility show that it is high, thus mitigating the impact of inequality to a large extent.

JEL Classifications: D31, D63, I32

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Date posted: June 13, 2006 ; Last revised: June 13, 2006

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Bartlett, Bruce , Income Distribution: Stagnant or Mobile? (July 13, 2005). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=907150

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