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Relative inequality and poverty in Germany and the United States using alternative equivalence scales
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - 1994
inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …, daß Ungleichheit und Armut in den Vereinigten Staaten gößer sind als in Deutschland. Alle Personengruppen zusammen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290126
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Survey under-coverage of top incomes and estimation of inequality: What is the role of the UK's SPI adjustment?
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, … - 2017
Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income tax record data in combination with survey data is a potential approach to address the problem; we consider here the UK's pioneering "SPI adjustment" method that implements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028770
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Measuring inequality using censored data: a multiple imputation approach
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, … - 2009
To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to provide partially synthetic datasets analyzed using complete data methods. Estimation and inference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269337
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Measuring inequality using censored data: a multiple imputation approach
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, … - 2009
To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to provide partially synthetic datasets analyzed using complete data methods. Estimation and inference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271567
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What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? Answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, … - 2016
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences in variable definitions and combine survey and tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011690327
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How the Distribution of After-Tax Income Changed over the 1990s Business Cycle: A Comparison of the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Japan
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Oshio, Takashi; Rovba, Ludmila - 2007
Using kernel density estimation we find that over their 1990s business cycles the entire distribution of after-tax (disposable) income moved to the right in the United States and Great Britain while inequality declined. In contrast, Germany and Japan experienced less growth, a rise in inequality...
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Top Incomes and Human Well-being Around the World
Burkhauser, Richard V.; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; … - 2016
The share of income held by the top 1 percent in many countries around the world has been rising persistently over the last 30 years. But we continue to know little about how the rising top income shares affect human well-being. This study combines the latest data to examine the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451236
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What Has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality since the Mid-1990s? Answers from Reconciled and Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Herault, Nicolas; Jenkins, … - 2016
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences in variable definitions and combine survey and tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479236
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Income Growth and its Distribution from Eisenhower to Obama: The Growing Importance of In-Kind Transfers (1959-2016)
Elwell, James; Corinth, Kevin; Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2019
We provide the first survey-based look at levels and trends in income and its distribution from 1959 to 2016 by linking Current Population Survey data from 1967 through 2016 with decennial Census data for 1959. We find that the dramatic decline in the market income of the middle class (measured...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179950
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Survey Under-Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality: What Is the Role of the UK's SPI Adjustment?
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, … - 2017
Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income tax record data in combination with survey data is a potential approach to address the problem; we consider here the UK's pioneering 'SPI adjustment' method that implements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744580