. The main research question raised in the paper is whether our perception of income differentiation is driven by experience … more tolerant to income inequality than a less mobile and segmented one? The intuitive answer seems to be an obvious “yes …

The Gini coefficient is based on the sum of pairwise income differences, which can be decomposed into separate sums for … is most sensitive to changes in the middle of typical income distributions. Behavior of the personal indexes also throws … light on the inequality impacts of secular changes in income distribution. In a simple Kuznetstype process, the Gini …

We document the evolution of intergenerational income (IGI ) inequality, measured as the relative income between old … constant in lower-income countries. We show that these diverging trends are due to different channels. In rich countries, the … lower-income countries, we observe a strong counteracting force driven by a faster increase in labor income, conditional on …

income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well …-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of income in a dynamic framework. This finding holds after controlling for other …'s own history as well as the relative income performance with respect to the others living in the society under analysis do …

The intra-distributional mobility of German income dynamics is analysed using GSOEP. Transition probabilities are found …-stayer model is proposed. In order to explain the observed mobility profiles, we concentrate on one important income class - the …

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 the framework …s (when income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Second, we contrast the …

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 …