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A Different Perspective on the Evolution of UK Income Inequality

Atkinson, A. B.; Jenkins, Stephen P. - In: Review of Income and Wealth 66 (2019) 2, pp. 253-266

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Inequality Comparisons with Ordinal Data

Jenkins, Stephen P. - In: Review of Income and Wealth 67 (2020) 3, pp. 547-563

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What Accounts for the Rising Share of Women in the Top 1 percent?

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Herault, Nicolas; Jenkins, … - In: Review of Income and Wealth (2021)

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USING THE P90-P10 INDEX TO MEASURE U.S. INEQUALITY TRENDS WITH CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY DATA: A VIEW FROM INSIDE THE CENSUS BUREAU VAULTS

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - In: Review of Income and Wealth 55 (2009) 1, pp. 166-185

The March Current Population Survey (CPS) is the primary data source for estimation of levels and trends in U.S. earnings and income inequality. However, time-inconsistency problems related to top coding lead many CPS users to measure inequality via the ratio of the 90th to the 10th percentile...

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DISTRIBUTIONALLY-SENSITIVE INEQUALITY INDICES AND THE GB2 INCOME DISTRIBUTION

Jenkins, Stephen P. - In: Review of Income and Wealth 55 (2009) 2, pp. 392-398

The Generalized Beta of the Second Kind (GB2) income distribution provides an excellent description of income distributions. However the degree of inequality implied by GB2 parameter estimates is typically summarized using the Gini coefficient only. This paper provides formulae for the...

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