We propose a social welfare function to evaluate a profile of income streams and compare the welfare gain of the actual … profile relative to the income profile where the individual receives his first period income in each period. We derive … in the income distribution. The mobility effect, generated by reranking in the income distribution has two components: a …

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 …

. Christiansen -- Schooling, intelligence, and income in America / Orley Ashenfelter and Cecilia Rouse -- Does schooling raise …

panel data and mobility concepts and measures adapted from the literature, this paper examines 10-year income mobility …

defined by where they start, but can move up the economic ladder based on their efforts and accomplishments. Family income … of any family is tethered to its starting point. In the United States, family income inequality has risen from year to … year since the mid-1970s, raising questions about whether long-term income is also increasingly unequally distributed …

they start, but can move up the economic ladder based on their efforts and accomplishments. Family income mobility … - changes in individual families' income positions over time - is one indicator of the degree to which the eventual economic … wellbeing of any family is tethered to its starting point. In the United States, family income inequality has risen from year to …

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income growth across the income range, and the reshuffling of individuals in the income pecking order. We use it to explain … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in …