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 …

approach to European EU-SILC survey data which in some countries include administrative data. We find higher inequality in …Household survey data provide a rich information set on income, household context and demographic variables, but tend … to under report incomes at the very top of the distribution. Administrative data like tax records offer more precise …

approach to European EU-SILC survey data which in some countries include administrative data. We find higher inequality in …Household survey data provide a rich information set on income, household context and demographic variables, but tend … to under report incomes at the very top of the distribution. Administrative data like tax records offer more precise …

analysis uses tax return data, we derive our findings taking advantage of the much more extensive information about personal … characteristics that is available in survey data. Our use of survey data requires justification given survey under-coverage of top …

processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between …

This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Economic theory delivers … the interdependence of decentralization and fragmentation, since the inequality decreasing effect of fiscal …

This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Theoretically … consider the interdependence of decentralization and fragmentation as inequality decreasing effects of decentralization are …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

-national comparison of survey-based household income data. With these caveats in mind, we present data on both the level of inequality …This chapter reviews the evidence on cross-national comparisons of annual disposable income inequality in over 20 … during the early to mid-1990s, and in inequality trends since 1970. While most comparisons are made in terms of relative …