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What has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality Since the Mid-1990s? Answers from Reconciled and Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2016

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences in variable definitions and combine survey and tax...

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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2002

across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

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The effect of family income during childhood on later-life attainment : evidence from Germany

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian - 2002

We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant...

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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices from Complex Survey Data

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2003

Applying a method suggested by Woodruff (1971), we derive the sampling variances of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simpli?es the calculations for the i.i.d. case when compared to previous...

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The Dynamics of Child Poverty: Britain and Germany Compared

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000

We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Germany using data from the British … Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-7. Compared to Germany, in Britain poverty …Wir vergleichen die Muster der Armutsdynamik bei Kindern in Großbritannien und Deutschland anhand der Daten der British …

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The Effect of Family Income During Childhood on Later-Life Attainment: Evidence from Germany

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian - 2002

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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices from Complex Survey Data

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2003

Applying a method suggested by Woodruff (1971), we derive the sampling variances of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the calculations for the i.i.d. case when compared to previous...

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Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth and income mobility

Jenkins, Stephen P.; van Kerm, Philippe - 2003

Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

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Trends in Income Inequality, Pro-Poor Income Growth and Income Mobility

Jenkins, Stephen P.; van Kerm, Philippe - 2003

Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

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Einfluss der Familienform auf den Schulerfolg von Kindern nicht nachweisbar

Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 73 (2006) 13, pp. 165-169

Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) kann für Kinder, die in Deutschland von 1966 bis 1986 geboren wurden, methodisch …

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