This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data. It presents … evidence that income is likely to be under-recorded for households with low resources. It describes the different impressions … an imputed income from housing, rather than near-cash income. It describes what different impressions one gets about the …

This paper documents patterns and recent developments on income inequality in Latin America (LA). New comparative … international evidence confirms that LA is a region of high inequality, although maybe not the highest in the world. Income …

, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …

recession, resulting in a substantial rise in unemployment, and income and wealth inequality. This paper uses longitudinal data … from the Survey of Household Finances over the period 2002 to 2014 to examine the distributions of income and wealth in … both income and wealth following the sharp decline in house prices that occurred since 2008, with house price fluctuations …

This paper examines inequality and mobility using measures of income and consumption. Consumption is claimed to be a … better measure of permanent income and thus well-being, but most studies of inequality and mobility using U.S. data use … income.This paper uses cohort data from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys on total consumption to impute consumption in the …

onwards), and income gains are likely to be concentrated at the top of the income distribution. The additional foreign … disparities and widening income inequality. Using the additional revenues of the Canal expansion in a targeted cash transfer …