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 …

) and income inequality in the United States. Using panel cointegration techniques that allow for cross …-sectional heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence, and endogenous regressors, we find that the short-run effects of FDI on income inequality … negative effect on income inequality in the United States. This result for the United States as a whole does not imply that FDI …

cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is therefore the next stage in the research program. At the same time, we …

Economic growth might both increase and decrease income inequality, depending on the circumstances. The nature of this … relationship matters at the city level as well. This paper examines the income-inequality relationship within U.S. metropolitan … over time. A higher per capita income level was associated with a lower within-MSA inequality level in earlier years, but …

inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …