earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time-inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality … public use data, closely track inequality trends in labor earnings and household income using internal data. But estimates of …

cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditure. When the size of … the middle class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US dollars a day in purchasing power …

This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys, collected between 1965 and 2005. Father's income is predicted on the … intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) for both sons and daughters, in Japan lies around .35, which is an intermediate value, by …

This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … Japanese Social Strat- ification and Mobility (SSM) surveys, collected between 1965 and 2005. Father's income is predicted on … intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) in Japan is around .3 for both sons and daughters, a rather low figure in comparative …

Economic Literature both assert the inevitability of an increasing share of capital in total income, given a higher rate of … return to capital than the rate of growth in income. This paper shows by a specific example, a logical argument and its … intuition that the alleged inevitability is not valid. Even just for capital to grow faster than income, we need an additional …

microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … from the German Survey of Income and Expenditure (EVS), the present paper compares EU-SILC-based results about income …

bonus is defined as the discounted value of the difference between a person's actual income and his or her counterfactual … real income stream forecast for a hypothetical continuation of economic life in a static GDR. The two main issues tackled … centralized to a market economy and the estimation of plausible counterfactual income streams. Our central result is that 19 …

higher share of immigrants in the population leads to a lower tax rate on labor income, with the effect statistically …