household surveys by combining information on income shares from household surveys and top income shares from tax data. The … methodology relies on a flexible parametric functional form that models the income distribution for each country-year point under … and 42 per cent, depending on the period of analysis, and the assumed level of truncation of the income distribution. …

income and its distribution than the available household or other survey sources. However, there are difficulties in using … tax data across time, as both policy and reporting changes influence the administrative statistics of income. This paper … uses two sets of adjustments to generate a consistent personal income series for the 2011-2018 period: upward adjustments …

Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and, in this way … of data for more than 80 countries from 1981 to 2005, we find that income instability results in a lower poverty …. -- income instability ; poverty ; inequality ; economic growth ; growth elasticity of poverty ; poverty trap …

global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution. During …

environmentally related impacts on health may bias the speed of convergence downward. We conclude that high rates of income growth …

This paper presents new evidence on the study of income mobility in Ecuador over the period 2004 - 11. We utilize … longitudinal data of individual income tax returns to measure income mobility both at the top and at the middle of the income … distribution, and we find three main empirical results. First, income mobility in Ecuador is low for top incomes: the probability …

Top income under-coverage in developing countries not only leads to downward biased inequality indicators but might … tax records. ECUAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador, is then used to compare income inequality, total … tax revenue, and work incentives with and without top income adjustment under the baseline tax-benefit system and for a …