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 …

provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis … trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper … of exports to workers reduces income inequality measured by the Gini coefficient by 0.17 points (using a 0 to 100 scale …

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 …

Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …

than those of lower poverty, lower inequality, or higher GDP per capita …We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross …

This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and … Income Project indicate that while, assessed against an absolute poverty line, poverty among Chinese urban residents was … already fairly low in 2007, increasing proportions fell under a relative poverty line from 1988 to 2007. Thus income growth in …

Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty … poverty gradient from rural to town to city will exist as an equilibrium phenomenon. We then address the policy question and … show how the answer depends on the migration response, where the poverty line lies relative to incomes in the three …

analyzes the potential effects of fuel prices on poverty and inequality in Paraguay. Using microsimulation methods and based on … the Commitment to Equity framework, it estimates the impact of higher fuel prices on welfare, poverty, and inequality …The recent global increases in fuel prices threaten the gains in poverty reduction that countries like Paraguay have …

earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistencyproblems related to top coding in theses data have led many … traditionalsummary measure of inequality... …