This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more … income inequality, we also report results on aggregate welfare and polarization. Inequality has moderately increased in South …

relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using … comparable values surveys for six Latin American countries. We find that both a continuous measure of income and categorical … measures of income-based class are robustly associated with values. Both income and class tend to display a similar association …

-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle … class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US Dollars a day in PPP terms), social policy on …

This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys, collected between 1965 and 2005. Father's income is predicted on the … intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) for both sons and daughters, in Japan lies around .35, which is an intermediate value, by …

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 timeinconsistency 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 …

higher share of immigrants in the population leads to a lower tax rate on labor income, with the effect statistically …