first estimates of top-corrected inequality trends for real equivalized disposable incomes over the years 1994-2015. We find …-corrected inequality estimates exist. The highest-income earners benefited the most during the post-socialist transformation: the annual …

how it affects estimates of overall income inequality. More generally, we assess whether the SPI adjustment is fit for …Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income …'s pioneering "SPI adjustment" method that implements this idea. Since 1992, the principal income distribution series (reported …

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 …

I focus on one of the most-commonly-cited 'facts'; about UK income inequality - that it has changed little over the … last 30 years - and reflect on how robust that description is. I look at a number of fundamental issues in inequality … measurement related to inequality concepts (e.g., inequality aversion, relative versus absolute inequality, and inequality of …

income inequality using household survey data is 0.464 for 2016, and it jumps to 0.646 after including the samples of the top … incomes, which demonstrates the great importance of the top incomes in estimating income inequality. …

Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … as the first line of defense against self-interest and inequality. Absent a strong and clear link between inequality and … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its …

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 …

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 …