Income mobility and the Arab spring: the case of Egypt and Jordan

Mahdi Majbouri ()

Applied Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 24, issue 15, 1070-1074

Abstract: Arab Spring has swept Middle East and North Africa. Although the reasons behind this revolutionary albeit mostly unfruitful social phenomenon is unknown, economic reasons such as income inequality and lack of income mobility have been mentioned. Using an approach that is free of measurement error and attrition biases, this study estimates income mobility in a country that went through Arab Spring, Egypt, and compares that with a similar country that did not experience it, Jordan. The results show that unconditional and conditional income mobility were substantially smaller in Egypt than Jordan. This has implications for the policy-makers not just in the Middle East but the world.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2016.1254332

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