they start, but can move up the economic ladder based on their efforts and accomplishments. Family income mobility … - changes in individual families' income positions over time - is one indicator of the degree to which the eventual economic … wellbeing of any family is tethered to its starting point. In the United States, family income inequality has risen from year to …

countries. It also examines international correlations between these indices and output per capita, income inequality, and … is positively correlated with overall income inequality, and negatively with measures of intergenerational mobility, both … ; income inequality ; social mobility ; mobility …

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 …

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 …

that also affects the rising middle-class. More specifically, we find that 65% of those with daily income between $4 and 10 … by higher income mobility, particularly upward mobility. These findings have important implications for the design of …

changes makes it difficult to predict the impact of the income accounting period on inequality in a more general context. Thus …, in distributional analyses it is of paramount importance to use income data from a uniform accounting period …

countries. It also examines international correlations between these indices and output per capita, income inequality, and … is positively correlated with overall income inequality, and negatively with measures of intergenerational mobility, both …