shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …

shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component …

indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …

; and v that guarantee consistent assessments of social welfare, inequality and poverty embodied in a given income … distributions. Social planners commonly use two SWFs: SWFε implied by income inequality aversion (ε) and SWFv implied … by rank inequality aversion (v). However, a voluntary choice of ε or v may result in inconsistent assessments of …

Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between … 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise. We apply decomposition techniques to analyse the proximate determinants of … labour income inequality and fiscal incidence analysis to estimate the first-order effects of taxes and social spending on …

Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … how it was possible both for "the poor" to have fared badly relatively to "the rich" in the USA during the 1980s (when …

for the years 1996 to 2004. We study the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty by following the Poverty …This paper analyzes the relationship between growth, poverty and income distribution using household data for Colombia … degree to which the poor benefit from the growth process. We also carry out a decomposition of the changes in poverty to …