Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth and income mobility

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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), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 377

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
• Subject: inequality ; income growth ; income mobility ; pro-poor growth ; reranking ; Einkommensverteilung ; Soziale Mobilität ; Gini-Koeffizient ; Schätzung ; Deutschland ; Vereinigte Staaten

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Jenkins, Stephen P. ; van Kerm, Philippe
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2003

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18134
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET