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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 … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998877
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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 … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998938
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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 … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999018
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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 … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456682
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The British Household Panel Survey and its Income Data
Jenkins, Stephen P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682961
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The Income Distribution in the UK: A Picture of Advantage and Disadvantage
Jenkins, Stephen P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167205
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World Income Inequality Databases: An Assessment of WIID and SWIID
Jenkins, Stephen P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959664
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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices from Complex Survey Data
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2003
inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simpli?es the calculations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260665
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Estimating welfare indices: household weights and sample design
Cowell, Frank A.; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2000
The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the mapping of household/family distributions into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260745
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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260926