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Measuring Top Incomes Using Tax Record Data : A Cautionary Tale from Australia
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hahn, Markus H.; Wilkins, Roger - 2013
Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez (2011) survey an important new literature using income taxbased data to measure the share … of income held by top income groups. But changes in tax legislation that expand the tax base to include income sources (e … the share of income they hold. We provide a cautionary tale from Australia of how comprehensive tax reform legislation in …
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Revised Estimates of Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States
Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2004
Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074347
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Chapter 15. Poverty and Aging
Marchand, J.; Smeeding, T. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 905-950). 2016
This chapter explores the relationship between poverty and aging, in terms of its measurement and trends, as well as its alleviation, with particular attention to the most vulnerable individuals at each end of the age distribution. The measurement addresses both the definition of poverty and its...
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Why is Consumption More Log Normal Than Income? Gibrat's Law Revisited
Lewbel, Arthur; Battistin, Erich; Blundell, Richard - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2007
Significant departures from log normality are observed in income data, in violation of Gibrat's law. We identify a new … log normal than the distribution of income. We explain these empirical results by showing that the logic of Gibrat's law … applies not to total income, but to permanent income and to maginal utility. These findings have important implications for …
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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time-inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality … public use data, closely track inequality trends in labor earnings and household income using internal data. But estimates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763901
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Inequality and Club Formation.
Jaramillo, F.; Kempf, H.; Moizeau, F. - Centre de recherche de mathématiques et économie … - 2000
We study the relationship between social segmentation and income inequality by means of the economic theory of clubs … investigating its characteristics, we show how the clubs' sizes depend on the rate of income increase and compare segmentation …
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Benessere economico e felicità in Italia
Biancotti, Claudia; D'Alessio, Giovanni - In: Rivista di Politica Economica 98 (2008) 4, pp. 39-78
In recent years, a vast literature has focused on thè mie played by economic variables in determining the perceived well-being of individuals. Analyses conducted so far show that economic aspects explain only a part of the variability in happiness: other profiles, such as health and family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008547005
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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure U.S. Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View From Inside the Census Bureau Vaults
Burkhauser, Richard; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, Stephen - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2007
earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality … public use data, closely track inequality trends in labor earnings and household income using internal data. But estimates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058773
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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate timeinconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality … public use data, closely track inequality trends in labor earnings and household income using internal data. But estimates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068767
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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults*
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Burkhauser, … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2007
earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time-inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality … public use data, closely track inequality trends in labor earnings and household income using internal data. But estimates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413422