I determine UK income inequality levels and trends by combining inequality estimates from tax return data (for the … enhance comparability. For top income recipients, I estimate inequality and mean income by fitting Pareto models to the tax … with a threshold set at the 99th or 95th percentile (depending on year). Conclusions about aggregate UK inequality trends …

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 time-inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality …

is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …

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 …

This paper scrutinizes the conventional wisdom about trends in UK income inequality and also places contemporary … inequality in a much longer historical perspective. We combine household survey and income tax data to provide better coverage of … of principle as well as data harmonization. We present evidence that income inequality in the UK is as least as high …

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 …

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 time-inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality …

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 …