Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (19752004 …

using complete data methods. Estimation and inference uses Reiter's (Survey Methodology 2003) formulae. Using Current … Population Survey (CPS) internal data, we find few statistically significant differences in income inequality for pairs of years … ; topcoding ; partially synthetic data ; CPS ; Current Population Survey ; Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distribution …

The March Current Population Survey (CPS) is the primary data source for estimation of levels and trends in labor … earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many …

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 return data in order to take advantage of the much better coverage of … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …

We provide the first survey-based look at levels and trends in income and its distribution from 1959 to 2016 by linking … Current Population Survey data from 1967 through 2016 with decennial Census data for 1959. We find that the dramatic decline …