This paper deals with the question of selectivity of missing data on income questions in large panel surveys due to …-section surveys, the imputation of missing values in panel data can profit from longitudinal information which is available for the … inequality measures based only on truly observed information to those derived from all (i.e., observed and imputed) observations …

To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored … using complete data methods. Estimation and inference uses Reiter's (Survey Methodology 2003) formulae. Using Current … Population Survey (CPS) internal data, we find few statistically significant differences in income inequality for pairs of years …

an integrated data set of individual tax returns and the German Socio-Economic Panel. The unique feature of this … integrated data set is that it encompasses the whole spectrum of the population, from the very poor to the very rich. We find a … modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a …

This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after … method together with a jackknife estimation of standard errors. We find that East Germany is still a stratum on its own when …

requires a wide range of more or less normative assumptions. However, the decisions made in both the pre- and post-data …-collection stage may interfere consid-erably with the substantive research question. Looking at wealth data from the German SOEP, this … analysis affects wealth distri-bution and inequality analysis. Obviously, when measured in "per capita household" terms, wealth …

. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total … appropriate correction. Using data from more than twenty waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) we evaluate four … substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well …

Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS … post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement error on prototypical analyses (earnings inequality, mobility and … harmonization of (income) data production as well as of imputation strategies across surveys. All three panels make use of …

. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime …This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …

inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the …

Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of 'poverty' and inequality' and …