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Survey under-coverage of top incomes and estimation of inequality : what is the role of the UK's SPI adjustment?
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2017
Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income … how it affects estimates of overall income inequality. More generally, we assess whether the SPI adjustment is fit for …
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Modelling errors in survey and administrative data on employment earnings : sensitivity to the fraction assumed to have error-free earnings
Jenkins, Stephen; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2020
Kapteyn and Ypma (Journal of Labour Economics 2007) is an influential study of errors in survey and administrative data on employment earnings. To fit their mixture models, Kapteyn and Ypma assume a specific fraction of their sample have error-free earnings. Using a new UK dataset, we assess the...
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