defined by where they start, but can move up the economic ladder based on their efforts and accomplishments. Family income … economic wellbeing 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 …

Using nationally representative longitudinal survey, we examine income mobility among rural Indian households over 1993 …-2004 and 2004-2011. We use both absolute and relative measures of mobility. Absolute measures of mobility suggest higher income … mobility during 2004-2011 compared to 1993-2004, and each social group witnessed higher income mobility over 2004-2011 compared …

families occupy in the income distribution and the degree to which they are stuck or able to move up (or slide down) over time …

. Much of that literature supposes that the distributional impact should be measured in an anonymous fashion. The income … ‘European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions' (EU-SILC) survey …

panel data and mobility concepts and measures adapted from the literature, this paper examines 10-year income mobility …

The bulk of economic studies on income distribution focus on the poor and/or on the rich, mostly ignoring those who … middle-income group as a crucial element of analysis. The exploration of the income dynamics of the middle-income group is …, already before the crisis. This paper investigates the drivers of mobility of the middle-income group in Italy during the …

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 …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes the dynamics of equivalent income in … 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 …

(log) income are AR(1) and relying on pseudo-panel procedures to estimate the corresponding auto-regressive coefficient; b …) abstracting from (log) normality assumptions; c) generating a close to perfect match of the terminal year income distribution and … d) considering the whole income mobility matrix rather than mobility in and out of poverty. We exploit the cross …

(log) income are AR(1) and relying on pseudo-panel procedures to estimate the corresponding auto-regressive coefficient; b …) abstracting from (log) normality assumptions; c) generating a close to perfect match of the terminal year income distribution and … d) considering the whole income mobility matrix rather than mobility in and out of poverty. We exploit the cross …