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range of tax-data estimates for other countries. Using univariate breakdowns and multivariate regression, we show that the …
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aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net … income ; Households Below Average Income ; income distribution ; inequality ; poverty …
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aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net … income ; Households Below Average Income ; income distribution ; inequality ; poverty …
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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 …
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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 …
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I determine UK income inequality levels and trends by combining inequality estimates from tax return data (for the … 'rich') and household survey data (for the 'non-rich'), taking advantage of the better coverage of top incomes in tax return … data (which I demonstrate) and creating income variables in the survey data with the same definitions as in the tax data to …
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We analyze the top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, and Spain based on the first and second wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be underrepresented in household surveys, we integrate big fortunes from rich lists, estimate...
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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 …
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lack of reliable panel data on household expenditures. One possibility is to use surveys that follow the same households … over time, but such data are rare and they typically have small sample sizes and face significant measurement issues. An … accounting identity to construct a population panel data with information on household expenditure. To derive such measures of …
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To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored … using complete data methods. Estimation and inference uses Reiter's (Survey Methodology 2003) formulae. Using Current … Population Survey (CPS) internal data, we find few statistically significant differences in income inequality for pairs of years …
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