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Survey under-coverage of top incomes and estimation of inequality: What is the role of the UK's SPI adjustment?
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, … - 2017
Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income … how it affects estimates of overall income inequality. More generally, we assess whether the SPI adjustment is fit for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028770
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Pareto models, top incomes, and recent trends in UK income inequality
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2016
I determine UK income inequality levels and trends by combining inequality estimates from tax return data (for the … enhance comparability. For top income recipients, I estimate inequality and mean income by fitting Pareto models to the tax … with a threshold set at the 99th or 95th percentile (depending on year). Conclusions about aggregate UK inequality trends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011690331
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Survey Under-Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality: What Is the Role of the UK's SPI Adjustment?
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, … - 2017
Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income … how it affects estimates of overall income inequality. More generally, we assess whether the SPI adjustment is fit for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744580
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What Accounts for the Rising Share of Women in the Top 1%?
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Herault, Nicolas; Jenkins, … - 2020
The share of women in the top 1% of the UK's income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in several other countries). Our first contribution is to account for this secular change using regressions of the probability of being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270037
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What accounts for the rising share of women in the top 1%?
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, … - 2020
The share of women in the top 1% of the UK’s income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in several other countries). Our first contribution is to account for this secular change using regressions of the probability of being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228199
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Pareto Models, Top Incomes, and Recent Trends in UK Income Inequality
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2016
I determine UK income inequality levels and trends by combining inequality estimates from tax return data (for the … enhance comparability. For top income recipients, I estimate inequality and mean income by fitting Pareto models to the tax … with a threshold set at the 99th or 95th percentile (depending on year). Conclusions about aggregate UK inequality trends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525055