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Using Tax Data to Better Capture Top Incomes in Official UK Income Inequality Statistics

Webber, Dominic - 2020

This paper presents new research and analysis to develop a methodology for improving the measurement of the upper tail …

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Income Segregation : Up or Down, and for Whom?

Logan, John R. - 2020

Reports of rising income segregation have been brought into question by the observation that post-2000 estimates are upwardly biased due to a reduction in the sample sizes on which they are based. Recent studies have offered estimates of this "sample-count" bias using public data. We show here...

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Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income

Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2009

We use a parametric method to estimate the income distribution for 191 countries between 1970 and 2006. We estimate the World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that...

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Measuring Labor Earnings Inequality using Public-Use March Current Population Survey Data : The Value of Including Variances and Cell Means When Imputing Topcoded Values

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2008

Using the Census Bureau's internal March Current Population Surveys (CPS) file, we construct and make available variances and cell means for all topcoded income values in the public-use version of these data. We then provide a procedure that allows researchers with access only to the public-use...

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Consistent Cell Means for Topcoded Incomes in the Public Use March CPS (1976-2007)

Larrimore, Jeff - 2008

Using the internal March CPS, we create and in this paper distribute to the larger research community a cell mean series that provides the mean of all income values above the topcode for any income source of any individual in the public use March CPS that has been topcoded since 1976. We also...

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A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality

Cunha, Flavio - 2006

This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across sectors. We determine which components of realized earnings variability are due to uncertainty...

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Trade, Inequality, and Poverty : What Do We Know? Evidence from Recent Trade Liberalization Episodes in Developing Countries

Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2004

measurement and identification difficulties, and despite conflicting evidence on some issues, empirical work based on country case …

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Why Measure Inequality?

Kaplow, Louis - 2002

A large body of literature is devoted to the measurement of income inequality, yet little attention is given to the … question, Why measure inequality? However, the reasons for measurement bear importantly on whether and how measurement should … of the sort that are emphasized in the existing measurement literature. Measures of poverty are also considered, and …

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The Disturbing "Rise" of Global Income Inequality

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2002

We use aggregate GDP data and within-country income shares for the period 1970-1998 to assign a level of income to each person in the world. We then estimate the gaussian kernel density function for the worldwide distribution of income. We compute world poverty rates by integrating the density...

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Redistribution through Education and Other Transfer Mechanisms

Hanushek, Eric - 2001

Educational subsidies are frequently justified as a method of altering the income distribution. It is thus natural to compare education to other tax-transfer schemes designed to achieve distributional objectives. While equity-efficiency trade-offs are frequently discussed, they are rarely...

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