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<p>The paper focuses on the social mobility as the key driver of the income inequality. The aim of the paper is to contribute to the assessment of the social mobility and explore its links to the level of inequality and the age structure of the country. Employing composite social mobility indicator featuring benefit-of-the-doubt weighting principle, scores, ranks and benchmarks for 55 countries worldwide are determined by slack-based data envelopment analysis (DEA) reduced model. The proposed measure is compared to a regular Global Social Mobility Index (GSMI). Score and rank correlations reveal some significant differences although Denmark is robustly confirmed as a leader in social mobility worldwide. The suggested DEA-based approach proved more flexible as to determining benchmarks for underperforming countries. Second stage regression analysis reveals higher levels of income inequality for the countries of lower social mobility and with higher share of young people.</p>
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The paper focuses on the social mobility as the key driver of the income inequality. The aim of the paper is to contribute to the assessment of the social mobility and explore its links to the level of inequality and the age structure of the country. Employing composite social mobility indicator featuring benefit-of-the-doubt weighting principle, scores, ranks and benchmarks for 55 countries worldwide are determined by slack-based data envelopment analysis (DEA) reduced model. The proposed measure is compared to a regular Global Social Mobility Index (GSMI). Score and rank correlations reveal some significant differences although Denmark is robustly confirmed as a leader in social mobility worldwide. The suggested DEA-based approach proved more flexible as to determining benchmarks for underperforming countries. Second stage regression analysis reveals higher levels of income inequality for the countries of lower social mobility and with higher share of young people.

Social Mobility as an Income Inequality Determinant

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The paper focuses on the social mobility as the key driver of the income inequality. The aim of the paper is to contribute to the assessment of the social...

Social Mobility as an Income Inequality Determinant

Published Online: Oct 17, 2022

Page range: 226 - 239

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/danb-2022-0014

Keywords
Income Inequality Determinants, Social Mobility, DEA-Based Index, Benefit-of-the-Doubt Weighting

© 2022 Elena Fifeková et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Social Mobility as an Income Inequality Determinant

Published Online: Oct 17, 2022

Page range: 226 - 239

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/danb-2022-0014

KeywordsIncome Inequality Determinants, Social Mobility, DEA-Based Index, Benefit-of-the-Doubt Weighting

© 2022 Elena Fifeková et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Income Inequality Determinants, Social Mobility, DEA-Based Index, Benefit-of-the-Doubt Weighting