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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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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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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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Levels and Trends in United States Income and Its Distribution A Crosswalk from Market Income Towards a Comprehensive Haig-Simons Income Approach

Armour, Philip - 2013

Recent research on United States levels and trends in income inequality vary substantially in how they measure income. Piketty and Saez (2003) examine market income of tax units based on IRS tax return data, DeNavas-Walt, Proctor, and Smith (2012) and most CPS-based research uses pre-tax,...

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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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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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Intrahousehold Inequality

Chiappori, Pierre-André - 2014

Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element of the distribution of welfare that can vary dramatically depending on overall environmental and economic factors. Thus, measures of inequality that ignore intra household...

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Inequality in the Joint Distribution of Consumption and Time Use

Han, Jeehoon - 2018

This paper examines inequality in both leisure and consumption over the past four decades using time use surveys stretching from 1975 to 2016. We show that individual and family characteristics, especially when including work hours, explain most of the long run variation in leisure. We then use...

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Misperceptions About the Magnitude and Timing of Changes in American Income Inequality

Gordon, Robert J. - 2009

Recent contributions in the inequality literature have raised questions about previous research on skill-biased technical change and the managerial power of CEOs. Directly supporting our theme of prior exaggeration of the rise of inequality is new research showing that price indexes for the poor...

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Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA : Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2009

Although the vast majority of US research on trends in the inequality of family income is based on public-use March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, a new wave of research based on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax return data reports substantially higher levels of inequality and faster...

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