I determine UK income inequality levels and trends by combining inequality estimates from tax return data (for the … enhance comparability. For top income recipients, I estimate inequality and mean income by fitting Pareto models to the tax … with a threshold set at the 99th or 95th percentile (depending on year). Conclusions about aggregate UK inequality trends …

processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between …

distribution of a function of random variables, and choosing between two or more distributions. To illustrate the procedures we … ; deductive theory ; probability distributions ; lognormal distribution ; Pareto distribution ; power-function distribution … ; rectangular distribution ; exponential distribution ; normal distribution ; pooling ; matching ; multilevel modeling ; inequality …

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 … Population Survey (CPS) internal data, we find few statistically significant differences in income inequality for pairs of years …

approach to European EU-SILC survey data which in some countries include administrative data. We find higher inequality in …

first estimates of top-corrected inequality trends for real equivalized disposable incomes over the years 1994-2015. We find …-corrected inequality estimates exist. The highest-income earners benefited the most during the post-socialist transformation: the annual …

incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada's tax system limits … income equalizing effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that …

Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher … inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization … how high inequality is, how it has been changing, and where they fit in the income distribution. Using a variety of large …

. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … joint distributions of income and net wealth confirms that France demonstrates a more homogenous distribution of richness …