Vincent Geloso - What Effects Income Mobility?
The Curious Task
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How to Measure Income Mobility Across Generations
We're considered a tax unit, but we're not but we're two individuals. So how would we count mine and hers are we going to divide my income like some my wife is like a student now so that's the reason why I'm using this as an example. If we average the two of us then it would look as if like, once she gets a job that there's very little mobility,. whereas I when she Gets a Job: "I actually see an increase in my income" The computing power is now available to create these rich databases that track people either over time, or relative to a starting point, such as their parent.
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