Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
are largely reconciled when the income distribution and inequality are defined the same way. Using internal CPS data for …Although most US income inequality research is based on public-use March CPS data, a new wave of research using IRS tax …-return data reports substantially faster inequality growth for recent years. We show that these apparently inconsistent estimates …