"Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to …

income persistence coefficients estimated with pseudo-panel data for Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay indicate that … indicate the direction of such mobility, the estimates of income differentials between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs for …

This paper argues that the details of political institutions help explain the low levels of personal income taxation … 1990 and 2007, this paper finds that i) countries with historically more unequal distributions of wealth and income … lower shares of personal income taxes in GDP. present higher levels of legislative malapportionment, and ii) higher levels …

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The sizable … particular severity of the income distribution changes in Argentina. This paper was prepared for the Labor Markets and …

This study uses data from Malaysia's Household Income and Expenditure Surveys to quantify the importance of different … factors in accounting for the changes in Malaysia's income distribution between 1984 and 1989 ("Period 1") and between 1989 … factors accounting for rising mean income and falling poverty in the two periods. …