This paper is concerned with concepts - poverty, inequality, affluence, and polarization - that are typically treated … motivation of Foster and Wolfson's paper "Polarization and the decline of the middle class" (1992/2010) was the sensitivity of … middle class and polarization based on partial orderings" (2010, page 247). We introduce an alternative partial ordering …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the … less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …

Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility … and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation of income mobility … comparison of income distributions according to income mobility. The mobility curve captures the extent to which the distribution …

In seeking to understand inequality today, a great deal can be learned from history. However, there are few countries … for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes … and social support. This paper presents a new methodology constructing income inequality indices from such tabular data …

pensions and on inequality in the distribution of pension income within a cohort of pensioners. …

substantial decrease in inequality among households with preschoolers, since the child care subsidies very much favour well …

between productivity growth and inequality. If this view is correct it poses some challenges for policies that focus on … of factors other than skilled biased technical change in order to explain the diverse picture of changes in inequality … explanations for the varying experience wrt. wage inequality between OECD-countries in recent decades. …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … emergence of a global "middle class". We show how regional distributions of income and consumption have evolved very differently … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global …