We investigate the trends of inequalities and mobility of income, expenditure and stock of durables between 1993 and … 1998 in Hungary. In 1996-8 the stagnating level of inequalities is coupled with relatively low and decreasing mobility. The … relationship between inequalities and mobility fastens the relative positions of households, increasing the share of households …

consumption of up to 23 euros depending on the household's position in the income distribution. Our findings suggest that changing … households who are perceived to be richer, on household savings and consumption. When controlling for own income as well as …

We demonstrate that interpersonal comparisons lead to "keeping up with the Joneses"-behavior. Using annual household … the consumption level of all households who are perceived to be richer, on household savings and consumption. When …

explain upward mobility in alternate econometric framework, envisaging endogeneity problem. It also encompasses a host of … indicators of wellbeing and constructs the transition matrix to capture the extent of change over time at the household level … wellbeing index constructed at the household level. Among several determinants of income rise two important policy prescriptions …

perceive well-being in competitive pressure situation, namely, relative income mobility, subjective mobility, relative income … that the objective trends of income and income mobility are very important with respect to satisfaction, but how people … perceive their past relative income and income mobility, and their prospect of upward mobility in the future are what really …

Using the Chinese urban household survey data between 1997 and 2006, we find that income inequality has a negative …

the same position in the consumption distribution Blacks end up in a lower percentile than Whites after a few decades …. This is particularly marked for those Blacks who start at the top of the consumption distribution, where Whites are much …