Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth, and income mobility
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www.econstor.eu TRENDS IN INCOME INEQUALITY, PRO-POOR INCOME GROWTH AND INCOME MOBILITY
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 how it was possible both for ‘the poor’ to have fared badly relatively to ‘the rich’ in the USA during the 1980s (when income inequality grew substantially)...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Oxford Economic Papers
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0030-7653,1464-3812
DOI: 10.1093/oep/gpl014