distribution of the Second Kind, we find that the upward trend in income inequality significantly slowed after 1993. Our results …Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (19752004 … closely match the income share trends reported by Piketty and Saez (2003) except for within the top 1 percent of the …

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 … Population Survey (CPS) internal data, we find few statistically significant differences in income inequality for pairs of years …

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 … Population Survey (CPS) internal data, we find few statistically significant differences in income inequality for pairs of years …

Although the majority of research on US income inequality trends is based on public-use March CPS data, a new wave of … these apparently inconsistent estimates are largely reconciled if the inequality measure and the income distribution are … defined in the same way. Using internal CPS data for 1967-2006, we closely match IRS data-based estimates of top income shares …

Assessments of whose income growth is the greatest and whose is the smallest are typically based on comparisons of … income changes for income groups (e.g. rich versus poor) or income values (e.g. quantiles). However, income group and … quantile composition changes over time because of income mobility. To summarize patterns of income growth while also tracking …

aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net … household income are derived. The BHPS net household income definition is modelled on that used in Britain's official personal … income distribution statistics (Households Below Average Income, HBAI). I show that cross-sectional BHPS distributions track …

little attention compared to the current at-risk-of-poverty rate. Using the 2008 EU Statistics on Income and Living … Conditions (EU-SILC) database, we compare persistent income poverty rates across European nations and examine differences in … current form as a key EUindicator of social progress. -- Persistent poverty ; income poverty ; poverty ; EU-SILC ; Europe …

aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net … household income are derived. The BHPS net household income definition is modelled on that used in Britain's official personal … income distribution statistics (Households Below Average Income, HBAI). I show that cross-sectional BHPS distributions track …