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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, Stephen - 2008
Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (19752004). Using a multiple imputation approach where values for censored observations are imputed using draws from a Generalized Beta distribution of the Second Kind, we find that the...
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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, Stephen - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003885796
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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, Stephen - 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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Measuring the impact of health insurance on levels and trends in inequality
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951844
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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, Stephen - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003749680
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Recent trends in U.S. top income shares in tax record data using more comprehensive measures of income including accrued capital gains
Larrimore, Jeff; Burkhauser, Richard V.; Auten, Gerald E.; … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610560
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A "second opinion" on the economic health of the American middle class
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Larrimore, Jeff; Simon, Kosali … - 2011
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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
Äquivalenzskalen ; Deutschland ; USA ; Einkommensverteilung ; Ungleichheit ; Armut … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009667623
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Why minimum wage increases are a poor way to help the working poor
Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2014
Minimum wage increases are not a very effective mechanism for reducing poverty. They are not related to decreases in … poverty rates. They can cost some low-income workers their jobs. And most minimum wage earners who gain from a higher minimum … wage do not live in poor (or near-poor) families. A better tool for reducing poverty, and at lower cost, is the earned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366925
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Consolidating the evidence on income mobility in the western states of Germany and the US from 1984-2006
Bayaz Ozturk, Gulgun; Burkhauser, Richard V.; Couch, … - 2013
The cross-national intragenerational income mobility literature assumes within-country mobility is invariant over the period measured. We argue that a great social transformation - German reunification - abruptly and permanently altered economic mobility. Using standard measures of mobility...
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