In most developing countries, income inequality tends to worsen during initial stages of growth, especially in urban … areas. The People's Republic of China (PRC) provides a sharp contrast where income inequality among urban households is … of time may mitigate the impacts of widening income inequality measured using crosssectional data. We explore several …

The canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after … growth. Measurement tools that endorse this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamics in the … measuring this individual poverty incidence of growth, and show how it relates to existing models. We apply our framework to …

Hardly any recent study exists that broadly reviews poverty trends over time for Russia. Analyzing the Russian … Longitudinal Monitoring Surveys between 1994 and 2019, we offer an updated review of poverty trends and dynamics for the country … over the past quarter of century. We find that poverty has been steadily decreasing, with most of the poor having a …

Hardly any recent study exists that broadly reviews poverty trends over time for Russia. Analyzing the Russian … Longitudinal Monitoring Surveys between 1994 and 2019, we offer an updated review of poverty trends and dynamics for the country … over the past quarter of century. We find that poverty has been steadily decreasing, with most of the poor having a …

multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with …

multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with …

also who moves up and down the income ladder over time. While income inequality has increased in most OECD countries, in … progressive taxation has also reduced the top 1 per cent’s share of disposable income. This paper finds that income inequality … to greater income inequality but also higher upward income mobility. Indeed, the analysis in the paper shows upward …

Annual income data may provide a misleading indicator of enduring income inequality in societies where there is …'s Republic of China (PRC) between the early 1990s and early 2000s. In the early 1990s, the increase in income inequality in the … inequality increased further, income mobility decreased, implying that the probability of being stuck in a relatively lower level …

specifically on the poverty impacts of growth. Considering a cross-sectional perspective for poverty measurement, early …’s treatment of mobility encompasses both the gain of "mobility as equalizer" and the variability cost of poverty transiency …

We examine the determinants of income mobility and inequality in a Ramsey model with elastic labor supply and … relationship between mobility and inequality is complex. For example, a reduction in the interest rate and an increase in the wage … rate reduce capital income inequality and allow upward mobility of the ability-rich. However, the increase in the labor …