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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, … - 2007

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 …

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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, … - 2008

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

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Measuring inequality using censored data: a multiple imputation approach

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, … - 2009

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 …

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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.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - 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 these apparently inconsistent estimates are largely...

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