The Effects of the Intensity, Timing, and Persistence of Personal History of Mobility on Support for Redistribution
This paper examines the association between the intensity, timing, and persistence of personal history of mobility on individual support for redistribution. Using both rounds of the Life in Transition Survey, the paper builds measures of downward m...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/03/19240234/effects-intensity-timing-persistence-personal-history-mobility-support-redistribution http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17293 |
| Summary: | This paper examines the association
between the intensity, timing, and persistence of personal
history of mobility on individual support for
redistribution. Using both rounds of the Life in Transition
Survey, the paper builds measures of downward mobility for
about 57,000 individuals from 27 countries in Eastern Europe
and Central Asia. The analysis finds that more intensive,
recent, and persistent downward mobility increases support
for redistribution more. A number of extensions and checks
are done by, among others, taking into account systematic
bias in perceived mobility experience, considering an
alternative definition of redistributive preferences, and
exploring the severity of omitted variable bias problems.
Overall, the results are robust. |
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