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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 … distribution of the Second Kind, we find that the upward trend in income inequality significantly slowed after 1993. Our results … distribution. Thus, we argue that if inequality has increased substantially since 1993, such increases are confined to this very …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268666
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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 … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479236
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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 …
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 … how it affects estimates of overall income inequality. More generally, we assess whether the SPI adjustment is fit for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028770
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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 … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011690327
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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 … how it affects estimates of overall income inequality. More generally, we assess whether the SPI adjustment is fit for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744580
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What Accounts for the Rising Share of Women in the Top 1%?
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Herault, Nicolas; Jenkins, … - 2020
The share of women in the top 1% of the UK's income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in several other countries). Our first contribution is to account for this secular change using regressions of the probability of being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270037
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Snakes and ladders and loaded dice: Poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa, 2008-2017
Zizzamia, Rocco; Schotte, Simone; Leibbrandt, Murray V. - 2019
the dynamic study of inequality through the lens of social stratification. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146514
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What accounts for the rising share of women in the top 1%?
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, … - 2020
The share of women in the top 1% of the UK’s income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in several other countries). Our first contribution is to account for this secular change using regressions of the probability of being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228199
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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, Stephen - 2016
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434172