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 …

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 reconciled if the inequality measure and the income distribution are …

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 reconciled if the inequality measure and the income distribution are …

Although the vast majority of US research on trends in the inequality of family income is based on public-use March … substantially higher levels of inequality and faster growing trends. We show that these apparently inconsistent estimates can … top 1 percent of the distribution during 1993-2000. Our results imply that, if inequality has increased substantially …

A substantial part of the inequality literature in the United States has focused on yearly levels and trends in income … investigate their impact on levels and trends in measured inequality. We show that ignoring the value of health insurance coverage … inequality and its upward trend. As an application of our fuller measure of income, we consider how two provisions of current …