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Gender Differences in German Upward Income Mobility

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Ira N. Gang () (Rutgers University)
Myeong-Su Yun () (Tulane University)
John Landon-Lane () (Rutgers University)

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We examine the upward labor income mobility of men and women in Germany using the GSOEP Cross National Equivalent File. Women have greater overall income mobility. However, utilizing a measure of upward income mobility and calculating the posterior probability that men's upward income mobility is greater than women's, we find that men have overall greater upward income mobility. Women have greater upward mobility in the lower intial income classes, in the upper initial income brackets men's mobility is higher than women's.

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Paper provided by Rutgers University, Department of Economics in its series Departmental Working Papers with number 200221.

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Keywords: gender discrimination; income distribution dynamics; Markov chain; upward income mobility;

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D3 - Microeconomics - - Distribution
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  1. Shorrocks, A F, 1976. "Income Mobility and the Markov Assumption," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 86(343), pages 566-78, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Geweke, John & Marshall, Robert C & Zarkin, Gary A, 1986. "Mobility Indices in Continuous Time Markov Chains," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 54(6), pages 1407-23, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Ira N. Gang & John Landon-Lane & Myeong-Su Yun, 2003. "Does the Glass Ceiling Exist?: A Cross-National Perspective on Gender Income Mobility," Departmental Working Papers 200301, Rutgers University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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