This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) for both sons and daughters, in Japan lies around .35, which is an intermediate value, by … Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys, collected between 1965 and 2005. Father's income is predicted on the …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …

earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time-inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality … public use data, closely track inequality trends in labor earnings and household income using internal data. But estimates of …

Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality … decreased during the 2000-2005 economic recovery. The decrease appears to be driven by falling volatility of transitory income … shocks. The response of consumption to permanent and transitory income shocks becomes weaker later in the sample, consistent …

Using longitudinal income-tax registers, we study how past labour market outcomes affect current labour market … welfare/non-participation. Our main finding is that after longer periods of employment with high income, individuals … rates to work, and sometimes also from work. The quantitative magnitude of persistency and hysteresis effects on inequality …

elasticity declines over time after 1981. It is invariant to controlling for income inequality but diminished upon controlling … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …

inequality in the US and provide a basis for weighing the relative decline in earnings and consumption for the less educated …

-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was …This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses … the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are there common trends across countries or over the path of development …

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with … at the same time a shift in the burden of taxation from the top to the middle of the income distribution. This paper …