We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a … late-childhood income is a more important determinant of outcomes than early-childhood income, and income effects are not … greater for poor households compared to rich households, other things equal. The income effects are small for native …

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 …

We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first-order Markov models that control for initial … genuine state dependence in poverty. We also provide estimates of low income transition rates and lengths of poverty and non …

To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored … Population Survey (CPS) internal data, we find few statistically significant differences in income inequality for pairs of years …

, Großbritannien, Deutschland, Irland, Spanien, Ungarn und Russland. Neben der Verwendung von Standard-Definitionen zur Erfassung … into and out of the poorest fifth of the children?s income distribution. We find significant (but not total) uniformity in … patterns of income mobility and poverty dynamics across the seven countries. The key exception is Russia, where the economic …

We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the … importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution to total income …