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 …

problem, and we find that the estimation of totals in scale-free systems oftentimes tends to be spurious. Our findings also … available data cannot discriminate between scale- or typedependence on the one hand, and statistical biases on the other. Yet … for the observed data than scale- or type-dependence. …

? How do the facts relate to proposed theories about changes in inequality? We present the main inequality trends, in some …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was … increasing concentration, but in most cases inequality seems to have been relatively constant at a high level in the nineteenth …

Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all … level, although this power has not been as effective as it was expected in reducing inequality. This work also simulates the … effects on inequality and poverty that the elimination of current RMI and the introduction of the new IMV would generate …

We explore the extent to which LIS-data can be used to shed light on the presence of women in the top of the income … women in the top of the income distribution based on aggregate tax data, we find that LIS-data give a relatively accurate … small to allow further study. For countries where data allows such analysis, we find that having a partner and having …

ceteris paribus impact of the reforms on inequality and poverty as well as estimate how the burden of austerity has been …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … generate a nationally representative time series of household income data from 1989 to 1999. Our technique performs well on …

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 … multiply-imputed. WIID and SWIID are convenient and accessible sources for researchers seeking cross-national data with global …

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 … multiply-imputed. WIID and SWIID are convenient and accessible sources for researchers seeking cross-national data with global …

We link survey data containing Danish people’s perceptions of where they rank in various reference groups and fairness …-workers as most unfair, but underestimate inequality the most exactly within these reference groups. …