Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …

earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … summary measure of inequality. With access to public use and restricted-access internal CPS data, and bounding methods, we … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time-inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality …

Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (19752004 … distribution of the Second Kind, we find that the upward trend in income inequality significantly slowed after 1993. Our results … distribution. Thus, we argue that if inequality has increased substantially since 1993, such increases are confined to this very …

-assessed health status? Has average well-being increased or well-being inequality decreased? How does the distribution of well …

distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica 2017) indices of inequality and by a new index based on GL … inequality rankings. …

demonstrate, ineqord can be used for dominance checks as well as for estimation of indices of polarization and inequality. …

Although the majority of research on US income inequality trends is based on public-use March CPS data, a new wave of … research using IRS tax return data reports substantially higher levels of inequality and faster growing trends. We show that … these apparently inconsistent estimates are largely reconciled if the inequality measure and the income distribution are …

This paper scrutinizes the conventional wisdom about trends in UK income inequality and also places contemporary … inequality in a much longer historical perspective. We combine household survey and income tax data to provide better coverage of … of principle as well as data harmonization. We present evidence that income inequality in the UK is as least as high …

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