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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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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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Fair and Unfair Income Inequalities in Europe

Checchi, Daniele - 2010

This paper analyses the extent of income inequality and opportunity inequality in 25 European countries. The present work contributes to understanding the origin of standard income inequality, helping to identify potential institutional setups that are associated to opportunity inequality. We...

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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality : Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith - 2011

Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...

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Mobility, Taxation and Welfare

Bibi, Sami - 2011

Income mobility is often thought to equalize permanent incomes and thereby to improve social welfare. The welfare analysis of mobility often fails, however, to account for the cost of the variability of periodic incomes around permanent incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of...

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