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Brandolini, Andrea; Jenkins, Stephen; Micklewright, John - 2017

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, rejecting any sub-field labelling of his interests and...

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Poverty trends in Turkey

Şeker, Sirma Demir; Jenkins, Stephen - 2013

This paper provides new evidence about poverty trends in Turkey between 2003 and 2011 and the factors accounting for … them. We give particular attention to issues of statistical inference, and the choice of the poverty line and the poverty … measure. Our robust conclusion is that absolute poverty declined rapidly between 2003 and 2008 but fell only slightly between …

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Trends in individual income growth : measurement methods and British evidence

Jenkins, Stephen; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2011

Assessments of whose income growth is the greatest and whose is the smallest are typically based on comparisons of income changes for income groups (e.g. rich versus poor) or income values (e.g. quantiles). However, income group and quantile composition changes over time because of income...

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New directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty

Jenkins, Stephen (contributor); … - 2007

Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of 'poverty' and 'inequality' and …

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The income distribution in the UK : a picture of advantage and disadvantage

Jenkins, Stephen - 2015

is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …

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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.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 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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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 tax record data in combination with survey data is a potential approach to address the problem; we consider here the UK's pioneering 'SPI adjustment' method that implements...

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Top-income adjustments and official statistics on income distribution: the case of the UK

Jenkins, Stephen - 2021

UK official statistics on income distribution have incorporated top-income adjustments to household survey data since 1992. This article reviews the work undertaken by the Department for Work and Pensions and the Office for National Statistics, and the academic research that influenced them, and...

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Getting the measure of inequality

Jenkins, Stephen - 2022

I focus on one of the most-commonly-cited 'facts'; about UK income inequality - that it has changed little over the last 30 years - 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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Pareto models, top incomes, and recent trends in UK income inequality

Jenkins, Stephen - 2016

I determine UK income inequality levels and trends by combining inequality estimates from tax return data (for the 'rich') and household survey data (for the 'non-rich'), taking advantage of the better coverage of top incomes in tax return data (which I demonstrate) and creating income variables...

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