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Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA : Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data
Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2009
Although the majority of research on US income inequality trends is based on public-use March CPS data, a new wave of … research using IRS tax return data reports substantially higher levels of inequality and faster growing trends. We show that …
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Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey : The Importance of Controlling for Censoring
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - 2021
Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (1975-2004). Using a multiple imputation approach where values for censored observations are imputed using draws from a Generalized Beta distribution of the Second Kind, we find that the...
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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data : A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - 2021
earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many …
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