; earnings mobility ; income mobility ; Germany ; East Germany ; inequality ; transition matrix ; Shorrocks index …

; earnings mobility ; income mobility ; Germany ; East Germany ; inequality ; transition matrix ; Shorrocks index …

over the 1980-2007 period for seven developed countries: Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and …

effects of unemployment go well beyond loss of income. Roughly 60 per cent of the newly unemployed, compared to about 40 per …

examines trends in average and median income and wealth indicators in Canada. Part two looks at the distribution of the income … and wealth of Canadians over time, including trends in poverty. Part three discusses trends in income fluctuations or … quintile has received the lion’s share of rising income and wealth. Looking at the nine headline indicators for which time …

In this paper I want to shed light on two aspects of income mobility: relative total income mobility using the … comparison shows a negative relationship between total relative mobility and long-run income equalization, this results is …

, over the same period, the “poor” enjoyed a 180% increase in income. Similarly different results exist for the “middle class … of a fair distribution of income.The main explanation of the different results about incomes is that the traditional … measure of income equality uses snapshots of incomes of the population every year, which causes different people to constitute …