Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … United States in the 1990s. The following questions are taken up. To what extent are measures of annual income inequality …

Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … United States in the 1990s. The following questions are taken up. To what extent are measures of annual income inequality …

captured by static inequality indices. …

Hardly any recent study exists that broadly reviews poverty trends over time for Russia. Analyzing the Russian … Longitudinal Monitoring Surveys between 1994 and 2019, we offer an updated review of poverty trends and dynamics for the country … over the past quarter of century. We find that poverty has been steadily decreasing, with most of the poor having a …

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

. Therefore, wage mobility does not balance recent increases in cross-sectional wage inequality. We apply RIF (recentered …

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. …

multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with …