This paper develops a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility and welfare …. Individual income is assumed to follow a stochastic process with two (unobserved) components, an i.i.d. component representing … measurement error or transitory income shocks and an AR(1) component representing persistent changes in income. We use a tractable …

Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses … individual approaches. I also propose a two-dimensional, time-income poverty measure that accounts for intrahousehold disparities …

This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamics benefits from taking a life cycle perspective … their probability of experiencing rising, falling, or other income trajectories. Using ten waves of the British Household … Panel Survey, we analyse the income trajectories of people at different stages in their lives in order to build a picture of …

In this paper, we show how the inequality of the income distribution of a population can be measured with the … percentile income shares, or with the mean income of each percentile and the mean income of the population, with a negligible …

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the …

Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses … individual approaches. I also propose a two-dimensional, time-income poverty measure that accounts for intrahousehold disparities …

There is an inverse association between income per adult and fertility among countries, and across households this …