household surveys by combining information on income shares from household surveys and top income shares from tax data. The … methodology relies on a flexible parametric functional form that models the income distribution for each country-year point under … and 42 per cent, depending on the period of analysis, and the assumed level of truncation of the income distribution. …

income and its distribution than the available household or other survey sources. However, there are difficulties in using … tax data across time, as both policy and reporting changes influence the administrative statistics of income. This paper … uses two sets of adjustments to generate a consistent personal income series for the 2011-2018 period: upward adjustments …

environmentally related impacts on health may bias the speed of convergence downward. We conclude that high rates of income growth …

Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and, in this way … of data for more than 80 countries from 1981 to 2005, we find that income instability results in a lower poverty …. -- income instability ; poverty ; inequality ; economic growth ; growth elasticity of poverty ; poverty trap …

global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution. During …

Based on tax records data from Ecuador, we analyse gender differences in top income groups from 2008 to 2017. Ecuador … labour market. While we observe a significant increase in the share of women at the top of the income distribution during … this period, women remain underrepresented in top income groups, at 38.7 per cent in the top 10 per cent income group and …

The quality of data on employment income is explored using Tanzanian and Zambian household survey datasets. The extent … of missing and implausible income data is assessed and four different methods are applied to impute missing or …