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reconciled and combined data provide more comparable estimates of UK-US inequality trends than the top incomes literature to date. …Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434172
reconciled and combined data provide more comparable estimates of UK-US inequality trends than the top incomes literature to date. …Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452217
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804418
Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income … tax record data in combination with survey data is a potential approach to address the problem; we consider here the UK … annually in Households Below Average Income) has been based on household survey data in which the incomes of a small number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703644
Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income … tax record data in combination with survey data is a potential approach to address the problem; we consider here the UK … annually in Households Below Average Income) has been based on household survey data in which the incomes of a small number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011691130
reconciled and combined data provide more comparable estimates of UK-US inequality trends than the top incomes literature to date. …Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011690327
Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income … tax record data in combination with survey data is a potential approach to address the problem; we consider here the UK … annually in Households Below Average Income) has been based on household survey data in which the incomes of a small number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028770
UK official statistics on income distribution have incorporated top-income adjustments to household survey data since …
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Top income under-coverage in developing countries not only leads to downward biased inequality indicators but might … employees (e.g. employees affiliated with social security) in survey data from Ecuador based on information from administrative … tax records. ECUAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador, is then used to compare income inequality, total …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947058
reconciled and combined data provide more comparable estimates of UK-US inequality trends than the top incomes literature to date. …Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479236