Stephen P. Jenkins is former Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex. He has served as Chair of the Council of the International Association for Research on Income and Wealth, and as President of the European Society for Population Economics. He is a Research Professor at DIW Berlin and a Research Fellow of IZA Bonn, and was a member of the UK's National Equality Panel that reported in 2010. His research interests are in topics related to the distribution of income, the labour market, and the tax-benefit system. He has published widely in these areas and also on related ones such as longitudinal survey data and statistical methods such as survival analysis. He co-edited The Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined, Oxford University Press, 2007 (with John Micklewright), and The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialised Countries, Cambridge University Press, 2001 (with Bruce Bradbury and John Micklewright).

If society is a metaphorical building and income levels determine which floor people get to live on, then who inhabits the basement, who lives in the penthouse, who lives in between, and how much movement up and down the elevators is there? Here, Stephen Jenkins offers perhaps the most authoritative answer to this question yet published

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. Introduction: longitudinal perspectives on income distribution ; PART I. MEASUREMENT AND DATA ; 2. Income over time: measurement issues ; 3. Sources of longitudinal data on income: household panel surveys in context ; 4. The British Household Panel Survey and its income data ; PART II. INCOME MOBILITY ; 5. Income mobility and how it has changed over time ; 6. Transitory variation and volatility in income ; 7. Spaghetti unravelled: a model-based description of differences in income-age trajectories ; PART III. POVERTY DYNAMICS ; 8. Poverty dynamics and how they have changed over time ; 9. Routes into and out of poverty and the role of trigger events ; 10. The length of time spent poor: estimates from hazard regression models ; 11. Modelling low income transitions: estimates from a Markov model ; ENVOI ; 12. Summary and conclusions

Stephen P. Jenkins is former Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex. He has served as Chair of the Council of the International Association for Research on Income and Wealth, and as President of the European Society for Population Economics. He is a Research Professor at DIW Berlin and a Research Fellow of IZA Bonn, and was a member of the UK's National Equality Panel that reported in 2010. His research interests are in topics related to the distribution of income, the labour market, and the tax-benefit system. He has published widely in these areas and also on related ones such as longitudinal survey data and statistical methods such as survival analysis. He co-edited The Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined, Oxford University Press, 2007 (with John Micklewright), and The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialised Countries, Cambridge University Press, 2001 (with Bruce Bradbury and John Micklewright).

If society is a metaphorical building and income levels determine which floor people get to live on, then who inhabits the basement, who lives in the penthouse, who lives in between, and how much movement up and down the elevators is there? Here, Stephen Jenkins offers perhaps the most authoritative answer to this question yet published

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. Introduction: longitudinal perspectives on income distribution ; PART I. MEASUREMENT AND DATA ; 2. Income over time: measurement issues ; 3. Sources of longitudinal data on income: household panel surveys in context ; 4. The British Household Panel Survey and its income data ; PART II. INCOME MOBILITY ; 5. Income mobility and how it has changed over time ; 6. Transitory variation and volatility in income ; 7. Spaghetti unravelled: a model-based description of differences in income-age trajectories ; PART III. POVERTY DYNAMICS ; 8. Poverty dynamics and how they have changed over time ; 9. Routes into and out of poverty and the role of trigger events ; 10. The length of time spent poor: estimates from hazard regression models ; 11. Modelling low income transitions: estimates from a Markov model ; ENVOI ; 12. Summary and conclusions