Panel Survey. We contribute to the existing literature by exploring the relationship between a wide range of aspects of …

countries or individuals. A newer way is to utilize data on a panel of countries or a panel of people and assess the pattern of … panel income changes. How do these two approaches relate to one another? This paper shows, first, that it is possible to … have all four combinations – rising or falling inequality and divergent or convergent panel income changes, and second …

Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS …

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 …

large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …

successful in alleviating inequality and poverty. Focussing on taxes and cash transfers, this paper investigates the impact of … inequality and poverty. We present BRAHMS, a new tax-benefit microsimulation model for Brazil and illustrate its use by …

middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …

households characteristics. We find lower conditional gaps in both upward/downward mobility in rural India for the disadvantaged …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … poverty …

The paper analyzes the effects of individual and household characteristics on current poverty status, while controlling … for initial conditions, past poverty status and unobserved heterogeneity in 14 European Countries for the period 1994 …-2000, using the European Community Household Panel. The distinction between true state dependence and individual heterogeneity has …