The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU's portfolio of primary indicators … drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data. Using a prototypical model of poverty dynamics, we explain how the … near-linear relationship arises and show how the model can be used to predict persistent poverty rates from current poverty …

Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (19752004 … distribution of the Second Kind, we find that the upward trend in income inequality significantly slowed after 1993. Our results … closely match the income share trends reported by Piketty and Saez (2003) except for within the top 1 percent of the …

Although the majority of research on US income inequality trends is based on public-use March CPS data, a new wave of … these apparently inconsistent estimates are largely reconciled if the inequality measure and the income distribution are … defined in the same way. Using internal CPS data for 1967-2006, we closely match IRS data-based estimates of top income shares …

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 …

given demographic changes meaning that more people are living alone, for longer, and with chronic health conditions. Using … income. Overall, our findings suggest that interventions should focus on reducing both loneliness and social isolation, as …

cognitive outcomes in young adult life. Additionally, we find that both early life cognitive ability and health seem to have … cohort members according to their height, which we consider a proxy for health status – shorter individuals show a stronger …

genuine state dependence in poverty. We also provide estimates of low income transition rates and lengths of poverty and non-poverty …We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first-order Markov models that control for initial …