Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are … robust to changes in the definitions of income, income-sharing unit, and summary inequality measure. In addition, our …

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income growth across the income range, and the reshuffling of individuals in the income pecking order. We use it to explain … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in …

I determine UK income inequality levels and trends by combining inequality estimates from tax return data (for the … data (which I demonstrate) and creating income variables in the survey data with the same definitions as in the tax data to … enhance comparability. For top income recipients, I estimate inequality and mean income by fitting Pareto models to the tax …

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are … robust to changes in the definitions of income, income-sharing unit, and summary inequality measure. In addition, our …

Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income …'s pioneering 'SPI adjustment' method that implements this idea. Since 1992, the principal income distribution series (reported … annually in Households Below Average Income) has been based on household survey data in which the incomes of a small number of …

I determine UK income inequality levels and trends by combining inequality estimates from tax return data (for the … data (which I demonstrate) and creating income variables in the survey data with the same definitions as in the tax data to … enhance comparability. For top income recipients, I estimate inequality and mean income by fitting Pareto models to the tax …

The share of women in the top 1% of the UK's income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in … their greater increases (relative to men) in the number of years spent in full-time education. Although most top income …

How to undertake distributional comparisons when personal well-being is measured using income is well-established. But … distributional comparisons in the ordinal data context, comparing them with those routinely used for comparisons of income …

Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income …'s pioneering "SPI adjustment" method that implements this idea. Since 1992, the principal income distribution series (reported … annually in Households Below Average Income) has been based on household survey data in which the incomes of a small number of …