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the Global South. Using national survey data and tax-benefit microsimulation models from the SOUTHMOD project, we provide …
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complementary approaches: a standard approach based on reported incomes in survey data, and a microsimulation approach, where taxes … microsimulation procedures, we may expect the two approaches to generate slightly different results. In fact, we find reasonably …
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Although the majority of research on US income inequality trends is based on public-use March CPS data, a new wave of research using IRS tax return data reports substantially higher levels of inequality and faster growing trends. We show that these apparently inconsistent estimates are largely...
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complementary approaches: a standard approach based on reported incomes in survey data, and a microsimulation approach, where taxes … microsimulation procedures, we may expect the two approaches to generate slightly different results. In fact, we find reasonably … future research, where each approach may inform improvements in the other. -- income ; microsimulation ; poverty ; inequality …
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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 multiply-imputed. WIID and SWIID are convenient and...
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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 multiply-imputed. WIID and SWIID are convenient and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409796
Although the majority of research on US income inequality trends is based on public-use March CPS data, a new wave of research using IRS tax return data reports substantially higher levels of inequality and faster growing trends. We show that these apparently inconsistent estimates are largely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155566
The literature has typically found that the distribution of socioeconomic factors like education, labor status and income does not account for the remarkablewealth inequality disparities between countries.As a result, their different institutions and other latent factors receive all the credit....
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This paper applies a novel inequality estimation method to household consumption expenditure in Mumbai, India. Since the richest households may be missing in survey data, this reestimated inequality figure takes them into account by combining survey data with house price data. However,...
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Although the vast majority of US research on trends in the inequality of family income is based on public-use March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, a new wave of research based on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax return data reports substantially higher levels of inequality and faster...
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