This paper revisits the fitting of parametric distributions to earned income data. In line with Camilo Dagum's dictum …

To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored … observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to provide partially synthetic datasets analyzed … Population Survey (CPS) internal data, we find few statistically significant differences in income inequality for pairs of years …

To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored … observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to provide partially synthetic datasets analyzed … Population Survey (CPS) internal data, we find few statistically significant differences in income inequality for pairs of years …

To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored … observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to provide partially synthetic datasets analyzed … Population Survey (CPS) internal data, we find few statistically significant differences in income inequality for pairs of years …

To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored … observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to provide partially synthetic datasets analyzed … Population Survey (CPS) internal data, we find few statistically significant differences in income inequality for pairs of years …

distributions. A first contribution is to document a hitherto unknown fact: the twisting of the lower tail is substantially …

We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 … and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between … service occupations (employment polarization), experienced earnings growth at the tails of the distribution (wage polarization …