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Top Incomes in Germany, 1871-2014

Bartels, Charlotte - 2018

This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present. Income concentration was high in the nineteenth century, dropped sharply after World War I and during the hyperinflation years of the 1920s, and increased rapidly throughout the...

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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries Over the Twentieth Century

Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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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 P. - 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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Equal Opportunity Through Higher Education : Theory and Evidence on Privilege and Ability

Arbel, Yuval - 2017

We model a higher education system that admits students according to their admission signal (e.g., matriculation GPA, SAT), which is, in turn, affected by their cognitive ability and socioeconomic background. We show that subsidizing education loans increases neither human capital stock nor...

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Combining Administrative and Survey Data to Improve Income Measurement

Meyer, Bruce - 2019

We describe methods of combining administrative and survey data to improve the measurement of income. We begin by decomposing the total survey error in the mean of survey reports of dollars received from a government transfer program. We decompose this error into three parts, generalized...

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An Empirical Total Survey Error Decomposition Using Data Combination

Meyer, Bruce - 2019

Survey error is known to be pervasive and to bias even simple, but important estimates of means, rates, and totals, such as poverty statistics and the unemployment rate. To summarize and analyze the extent, sources, and consequences of survey error, we define empirical counterparts of key...

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Data for Studying Earnings, the Distribution of Household Income and Poverty in China

Gustafsson, Björn - 2014

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until...

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Measurement Error in Earnings Data : Replication of Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek's Mixture Model Approach to Combining Survey and Register Data

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Rios Avila, Fernando - 2021

Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek (MRW, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2012) develop methods for prediction of a single earnings figure per worker from mixture factor models fitted using earnings data from multiple linked data sources. MRW apply their method using parameter estimates...

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Reconciling Reports : Modelling Employment Earnings and Measurement Errors Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Rios Avila, Fernando - 2023

We contribute new UK evidence about measurement errors and employment earnings to a field dominated by findings about the USA. We develop and apply new econometric models for linked survey and administrative data that generalize those of Kapteyn and Ypma (Journal of Labor Economics, 2007). Our...

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Wealth-Income Ratios in a Small, Late-Industrializing, Welfare-State Economy : Sweden, 1810-2014

Waldenström, Daniel - 2015

This paper uses new data on Swedish national wealth over a period of two hundred years to study whether the patterns in … wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to … lower wealth levels than the rest of Europe, and the main explanation is that the Swedes were too poor to save their income …

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