earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … summary measure of inequality. With access to public use and restricted-access internal CPS data, and bounding methods, we … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate timeinconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality …

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 …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …

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 …

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 …

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 …