"Comparing Income Distributions brings together John Creedy's recent original research and analyses of income … distribution. The book is concerned with both static, or cross-sectional, comparisons, and dynamic aspects of income mobility. The … author presents new methods of depicting and measuring income mobility and poverty persistence. Income mobility is explored …

It is often argued that an observation of rising annual income inequality need not have negative normative implications …. The argument is that if there has been a sufficiently large simultaneous increase in mobility, the inequality of income … mobility does reduce longer term inequality, it also increases the variability of income profiles over time and the latter has …