traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest …This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003 …-specific income mobility (estimated to explain some additional 10 percent of inter-temporal income variation). Analyzing the …

in the U.S. has a major impact on poverty rates, reducing the percent poor in 2004 from 29 percent to 13.5 percent …, estimates which are robust to different measures of the poverty line. We find that, while there are significant behavioral side … effects of many programs, their aggregate impact is very small and does not affect the magnitude of the aggregate poverty …

positive average effects on employment, earnings, and income, and generally negative effects on poverty rates, although the …

We compare male and female upward labor income mobility in Germany and the United States using the GSOEP-PSID Cross … in their upward income mobility compared to women in the upper income classes. We also find significant, but smaller …

Foreign price shocks have significant effects on functional income distribution and on inflation inequality. By … with an inflation-targeting regime. We investigate the impacts of foreign price shocks on income and inflation inequality … shock increases the profit share and the within-workers inequality (in real terms), since low-wage workers are more affected …

United States (1921-2012) to estimate two Gini-like indices representing inequality at the bottom and the top of the income … to be mostly explained by an increase in inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, which more than offsets the … decrease in inequality at the top. The implication is that middle incomes gained relative to high incomes, but especially …

-specific dimensions, indicators, weights and cut-offs. This paper analyses the 2013 round of the multidimensional poverty and inequality …Research into multidimensional poverty has gathered momentum in the last half decade, most notably in the aftermath of … policy instruments. Multidimensional poverty theories have been vigorously advocated by some of the most thoughtful and hard …

-income families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper … finds some commonalities but also some notable differences. Common to both countries is a sizable reduction in child poverty …, although the reduction in child poverty in the US has been less, and some families appear to have been left behind. Expenditure …