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Jenkins, Stephen - 2022

I focus on one of the most-commonly-cited 'facts'; about UK income inequality â that it has changed little over the last 30 years â and reflect on how robust that description is. I look at a number of fundamental issues in inequality measurement related to inequality concepts (e.g., inequality...

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Measurement Error in Earnings Data : Replication of Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek's Mixture Model Approach to Combining Survey and Register Data

Jenkins, Stephen; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2021

Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek (MRW, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2012) develop methods for prediction of a single earnings figure per worker from mixture factor models fitted using earnings data from multiple linked data sources. MRW apply their method using parameter estimates...

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Measuring Inequality Using Censored Data : A Multiple Imputation Approach

Jenkins, Stephen - 2009

To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to provide partially synthetic datasets analyzed using complete data methods. Estimation and inference...

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An Integrated Approach for Top-Corrected Ginis

Bartels, Charlotte - 2017

distribution. We combine the benefits of the two data sources and develop an integrated approach for top-corrected Gini …

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What Has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality Since the Mid-1990s? Answers from Reconciled and Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2016

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences in variable definitions and combine survey and tax...

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Pro-rich inflation in Europe : implications for the measurement of inequality

Gürer, Eren; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2018

change in the Gini (based on consumption expenditure) by up to 0.03 points. Cross-country heterogeneity in this change is … large as the change in the standard Gini measure over the period of interest. …

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Gini and optimal income taxation by rank

Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - 2020

trade-off between size and inequality using the Gini or related families of positional indices. The key idea is that when …

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Bunching and rank-dependent optimal income taxation

Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - 2020

(1987) and weights agree with the Lorenz quasi-ordering. Gini, S-Gini, and a class putting more emphasis on inequality in … for the maximin, Gini, and "illfare-ranked single-series Ginis". We then turn to a discrete population setting, and …

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Choosing or Inheriting the Joneses : The Origins of Reference Groups

Leites, Martín; Paleo, Camila; Ramos Morilla, Xavier; … - 2022

Do individuals choose their reference groups, i.e. their Joneses, or are they culturally transmitted across generations? We provide evidence that feeds the theoretical debate about the endogeneity or exogeneity of reference groups. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that reference groups are...

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A Social-Psychological Reconstruction of Amartya Sen's Measures of Inequality and Social Welfare

Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor - 2022

The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen's 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social … welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from socialpsychological building blocks, reformulating it as a ratio between a … Gini coefficient increases. By integrating our approach to the construction of the Gini coefficient with Sen's social …

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