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 …

Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of ?poverty? and inequality? and …

This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality – the World Income Inequality Database … (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations …

Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (1975 … 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 indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the …

Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of 'poverty' and inequality' and …

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

The generalized entropy class of inequality indices is derived for Generalized Beta of the Second Kind (GB2) income … inequality in 1994/95 and 2004/05 illustrates the analysis. …