This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the …

distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the …

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes … have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The sizable …

the lower income bound of the middle class (75% of the national median income) and not the poverty line (60% of the median …This paper evaluates the importance of middle class vulnerability to poverty for subjective well-being (happiness) in … European countries. Using the special module of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions micro-data on …

people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates …