Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … generate a nationally representative time series of household income data from 1989 to 1999. Our technique performs well on …

methods. In 2015, 2.5 per cent of the sample had per capita incomes imputed, resulting in slightly higher levels of inequality …. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and …

Current Population Survey data from 1967 through 2016 with decennial Census data for 1959. We find that the dramatic decline … transfer programs - especially in-kind transfers. Conventional measures of median income and income inequality that exclude the … stagnation of median market income growth and the rise in market income inequality since 1969. …

When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is … income growth than the standard measure. We apply these measures to long-term income data from the United States and find … that the U-shaped inequality trend over the past century holds up, but with important qualifications. Using measures that …

Current Population Survey data from 1967 through 2016 with decennial Census data for 1959. We find that the dramatic decline … transfer programs – especially in-kind transfers. Conventional measures of median income and income inequality that exclude the … stagnation of median market income growth and the rise in market income inequality since 1969 …

an integrated data set of individual tax returns and the German Socio-Economic Panel. The unique feature of this … integrated data set is that it encompasses the whole spectrum of the population, from the very poor to the very rich. We find a … modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a …

Understanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and … between inequality and growth via growth and inequality shocks for two large economies, China and the USA, for the years 1979 …- 2018. We find that a growth shock is inequality-increasing, and an inequality shock is growthreducing. We also find …

-oriented economy. We offer a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian … inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather than redistribution. The poorest tercile experienced a … growth rate that was more than 10 times that of the richest tercile, leading to less long-term inequality than short …

diverge from the rest of the income distribution. We combine household survey data and tax data (which, unlike household … survey data, includes accurate data for the very rich) to investigate the patterns of income growth over the period 2003 to …

an integrated data set of individual tax returns and the German Socio-Economic Panel. The unique feature of this … integrated data set is that it encompasses the whole spectrum of the population, from the very poor to the very rich. We find a … modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a …