Income Mobility in Costa Rica, 2001-2007
| dc.contributor.author | Rowe, Samuel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gindling, T.H. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Trejos, Juan Diego | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-14T21:02:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-12-14T21:02:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-01-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this paper we study year-to-year intra-generational income mobility in Costa Rica. To do so we use a panel data set constructed from the Household Surveys for Multiple Purposes (2001-2007) that allows us to follow the same households and persons from year-to-year. We find that there is substantial year-to-year income mobility in Costa Rica, especially in the middle of the income distribution. We also identify the factors that most affect year-to-year income mobility in Costa Rica. We find that per capita income is conditionally convergent; low-income families are more likely to experience an increase in income than are high-income families. Aside from initial per capita income, the three most important factors that explain changes in per capita household income in Costa Rica are, in order of importance: (1) changes in the employment status of household members; (2) changes in the number of dependents (children, elderly and other non-working members) in the household; and (3) the education of household members, especially the household head. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The creation of the panel data set used in this paper was financed through Canadian International Development Research Center (IDRC) research grant number 104242-001, administered by the Fundación Salvadoreña para el Desarrollo Económico y Social (FUSADES). We are grateful to Lisa Dickson for helpful comments | |
| dc.description.uri | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/economicas/article/view/15050 | |
| dc.format.extent | 16 pages | |
| dc.genre | journal articles | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Rowe, Samuel, T. H. Gindling, and Juan Diego Trejos. “Income Mobility in Costa Rica, 2001-2007.” Revista de Ciencias Económicas 32, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 9–23. https://doi.org/10.15517/rce.v32i1.15050. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.15517/rce.v32i1.15050 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/31102 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Universidad De Costa Rica | |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Economics Department Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Student Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC School of Public Policy | |
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| dc.rights | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 CR DEED Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Costa Rica | en |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cr/deed.en | |
| dc.title | Income Mobility in Costa Rica, 2001-2007 | |
| dc.type | Text |