earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … summary measure of inequality. With access to public use and restricted-access internal CPS data, and bounding methods, we … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time-inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality …

-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest …This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003 …-specific income mobility (estimated to explain some additional 10 percent of inter-temporal income variation). Analyzing the …

, integrated, and in some circumstances means-tested redistributive arrangements in order to better contribute to reduce poverty … and inequality. Finally, from the point of view of labor markets, by aiming to reduce perceived tax-wedges. This could be …

output drop and weak governance, have led to a sharp rise in inequality among households. Sharp inequities have arisen not … the main driving forces of income inequality in Georgia, as it emerges from the analysis of the first representative … survey of incomes and expenditures of Georgian households in 1996-1997. The paper finds that the level of inequality for …

The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at … for earnings mobility and growth; for the majority, however, self-employment remains constrained to low …

Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts … picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994 data remain until today the latest household level data available for … Turkey. The paper finds that Turkey does not face a problem of absolute poverty by the standards of a developing country (in …