The inequality dataset compiled in the 1990s by the World Bank and extendedby the UN has been both widely used and strongly criticized. The criticisms raisequestions about conclusions drawn from secondary inequality datasets in general. Wedevelop techniques to deal with national and...

Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income tax record data in combination with survey data is a potential approach to address the problem; we consider here the UK's pioneering "SPI adjustment" method that implements...

The study shortly surveys the main characteristics of the income surveys carried out by the Hungarian CSO in the last half century, then examines how the incomes of the households and especially the income inequalities developed in this period. The changes in the income inequality are shown in...

Auch der aktuelle zweite Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung akzentuiert die beiden Pole der Einkommensverteilung: Armut und Reichtum. Erstmals ist darin auf der Basis der Mikrodaten der Einkommensteuerstatistiken 1992, 1995 und 1998 - und auf der Basis einer Fortschreibung mit dem...