On the non-stationarity of German income mobility (and some observations on poverty dynamics)

Christian Schluter

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Abstract: The intra-distributional mobility of German income dynamics is analysed using GSOEP. Transition probabilities are found to be time-varying. The tested models comprise various mixed Markov chains in discrete time and a non-stationary mover-stayer model is proposed. In order to explain the observed mobility profiles, we concentrate on one important income class - the poor - instead of the entire transition matrix. Various poverty duration models accommodating unobserved population heterogeneity and duration dependence are examined.

Keywords: Intra-distributional mobility; Markovian models; time-varying transition probabilities; poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 D31 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47 pages
Date: 1997-04
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