Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …

provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis … trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper … of exports to workers reduces income inequality measured by the Gini coefficient by 0.17 points (using a 0 to 100 scale …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … poverty. -- income mobility ; poverty ; pseudo-panels ; Latin America …This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003 …

inequality in the U.S. without generating much benefit in terms of lower crime rates. …

Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts … picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994 data remain until today the latest household level data available for … Turkey. The paper finds that Turkey does not face a problem of absolute poverty by the standards of a developing country (in …

The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at … for earnings mobility and growth; for the majority, however, selfemployment remains constrained to low …

Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring …

analyzes the potential effects of fuel prices on poverty and inequality in Paraguay. Using microsimulation methods and based on … the Commitment to Equity framework, it estimates the impact of higher fuel prices on welfare, poverty, and inequality …The recent global increases in fuel prices threaten the gains in poverty reduction that countries like Paraguay have …