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Job satisfaction and coworker pay in Canadian firms
Javdani, Mohsen; Krauth, Brian - 2019
One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute income, but also their income relative to various reference groups (e.g. co-workers, friends, neighbors, relatives, etc.). We use Canadian linked employer-employee data to estimate...
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Women in the top of the income distribution : what can we learn from LIS-data?
Bobilev, Roman; Boschini, Anne; Roine, Jesper - 2019
We explore the extent to which LIS-data can be used to shed light on the presence of women in the top of the income distribution. We show developments of the share of women in top groups (P90-100 and P99-100) of the labour income distribution for 28 countries and, when possible, compare to...
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Long-run trends in the distribution of income and wealth
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2014
-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was … increasing concentration, but in most cases inequality seems to have been relatively constant at a high level in the nineteenth … wealth concentration and decreasing capital incomes in the top of the distribution. Thereafter trends are more divergent …
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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.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 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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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.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452217
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Top-income adjustments and official statistics on income distribution: the case of the UK
Jenkins, Stephen - 2021
UK official statistics on income distribution have incorporated top-income adjustments to household survey data since 1992. This article reviews the work undertaken by the Department for Work and Pensions and the Office for National Statistics, and the academic research that influenced them, and...
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Getting the measure of inequality
Jenkins, Stephen - 2022
I focus on one of the most-commonly-cited 'facts'; about UK income inequality - that it has changed little over the last 30 years - and reflect on how robust that description is. I look at a number of fundamental issues in inequality measurement related to inequality concepts (e.g., inequality...
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Survey under-coverage of top incomes and estimation of inequality : what is the role of the UK’s SPI adjustment?
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011691130
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Survey under-coverage of top incomes and estimation of inequality : what is the role of the UK's SPI adjustment?
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703644
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
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