Earnings Mobility in Times of Growth and Decline : Argentina from 1996 to 2003

In recent years Argentina's economy has experienced both rapid growth and severe decline. In this paper, we use a series of one-year long panels to study who gained the most in pesos when the economy grew and who lost the most in pesos when the economy contracted. Various considerations led us...

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Main Authors:	Fields, Gary S., Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310 Macroeconomics: Production E230 Wage Level and Structure Wage Differentials J310 Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O110 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Measurement of Economic Growth Aggregate Productivity Cross-Country Output Convergence O470
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5733

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spelling	okr-10986-57332021-04-23T14:02:23Z Earnings Mobility in Times of Growth and Decline : Argentina from 1996 to 2003 Fields, Gary S. Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310 Macroeconomics: Production E230 Wage Level and Structure Wage Differentials J310 Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O110 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Measurement of Economic Growth Aggregate Productivity Cross-Country Output Convergence O470 In recent years Argentina's economy has experienced both rapid growth and severe decline. In this paper, we use a series of one-year long panels to study who gained the most in pesos when the economy grew and who lost the most in pesos when the economy contracted. Various considerations led us to expect that mobility would be divergent--that is, that the individuals who started with the highest initial earnings would enjoy the largest earnings gains in pesos. Contrary to expectations and for a wide range of specifications, mobility is found to be mostly convergent, sometimes neutral, and never divergent. 2012-03-30T07:34:16Z 2012-03-30T07:34:16Z 2010 Journal Article World Development 0305750X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5733 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Argentina
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description	In recent years Argentina's economy has experienced both rapid growth and severe decline. In this paper, we use a series of one-year long panels to study who gained the most in pesos when the economy grew and who lost the most in pesos when the economy contracted. Various considerations led us to expect that mobility would be divergent--that is, that the individuals who started with the highest initial earnings would enjoy the largest earnings gains in pesos. Contrary to expectations and for a wide range of specifications, mobility is found to be mostly convergent, sometimes neutral, and never divergent.
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author	Fields, Gary S. Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura
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title	Earnings Mobility in Times of Growth and Decline : Argentina from 1996 to 2003
title_short	Earnings Mobility in Times of Growth and Decline : Argentina from 1996 to 2003
title_full	Earnings Mobility in Times of Growth and Decline : Argentina from 1996 to 2003
title_fullStr	Earnings Mobility in Times of Growth and Decline : Argentina from 1996 to 2003
title_full_unstemmed	Earnings Mobility in Times of Growth and Decline : Argentina from 1996 to 2003
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Earnings Mobility in Times of Growth and Decline : Argentina from 1996 to 2003

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