Trends in Income Inequality, Pro-Poor Income Growth and Income Mobility

Stephen Jenkins and Philippe VanKerm
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Philippe Van Kerm

No 377, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: inequality; income growth; income mobility; pro-poor growth; reranking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 p.
Date: 2003
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