I provide formulas for the influence function of two common misallocation statistics: TFP loss from misallocation and potential TFP gain from reallocation. I also show how to use a finite-difference approximation to Gateaux derivatives to obtain sample analogs to influence functions for...

Income is an important economic indicator to measure living standards and individual well-being. In Germany, there exist different data sources that yield ambiguous evidence when analysing the income distribution. The Tax Statistics (TS) - an income register recording the total population of...