This paper provides a reconstruction of the joint distribution of Italian households' income and wealth in the years …

Despite tremendous macroeconomic instability, Brazil?s urban income distributions in 1976 and 1996 appear, at first … glance, deceptively similar. Mean household income per capita was stagnant, with a minute accumulated growth of 4.3% over the …

Grouped data have been widely used to analyze the global income distribution because individual records from nationally …

, QJE). In this paper we analyze the performance of this method. Using Monte Carlo simulations for plausible income …

Assessments of whose income growth is the greatest and whose is the smallest are typically based on comparisons of … income changes for income groups (e.g. rich versus poor) or income values (e.g. quantiles). However, income group and … quantile composition changes over time because of income mobility. To summarize patterns of income growth while also tracking …

living in a household with a disposable income lower than a poverty line that represents a constant purchasing power all … years, as well as poverty lines defined as 60 percent of contemporary median income. Clear reductions of poverty from 1925 …

defined by where they start, but can move up the economic ladder based on their efforts and accomplishments. Family income … of any family is tethered to its starting point. In the United States, family income inequality has risen from year to … year since the mid-1970s, raising questions about whether long-term income is also increasingly unequally distributed …