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Illustrating Income Mobility and Poverty Persistence

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  • John Creedy
  • Norman Gemmell

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This article introduces several diagrams relating to relative income mobility, positional change within the distribution and poverty persistence. They are easy to produce and, at a glance, provide valuable information about income mobility and poverty dynamics, given information about the incomes of a cohort of individuals in two time periods.

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  • John Creedy & Norman Gemmell, 2022. "Illustrating Income Mobility and Poverty Persistence," Australian Economic Review, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, vol. 55(2), pages 309-323, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ausecr:v:55:y:2022:i:2:p:309-323
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-8462.12463
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    1. Van Kerm, Philippe, 2009. "Income mobility profiles," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 102(2), pages 93-95, February.
    2. Stephen P. Jenkins & Philippe Van Kerm, 2016. "Assessing Individual Income Growth," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 83(332), pages 679-703, October.
    3. John Creedy & Norman Gemmell, 2018. "Income Dynamics, Pro‐Poor Mobility and Poverty Persistence Curves," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 94(306), pages 316-328, September.
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    2. Creedy, John & Gemmell, Norman, 2022. "Summary Measures of Equalising Income Mobility Based on ‘Three Is of Mobility’ Curves," Working Paper Series 22008, Victoria University of Wellington, Chair in Public Finance.

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