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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … summary measure of inequality. With access to public use and restricted-access internal CPS data, and bounding methods, we … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time-inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality …

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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults*

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Burkhauser, … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2007

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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … summary measure of inequality. With access to public use and restricted-access internal CPS data, and bounding methods, we … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate timeinconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality …

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Consistent Cell Means for Topcoded Incomes in the Public Use March CPS (1976-2007)

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Larrimore, Jeff; Feng, Shuaizhang; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Using the internal March CPS, we create and in this paper distribute to the larger research community a cell mean series that provides the mean of all income values above the topcode for any income source of any individual in the public use March CPS that has been topcoded since 1976. We also...

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Measuring Top Incomes Using Tax Record Data: A Cautionary Tale from Australia

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hahn, Markus H.; Wilkins, Roger - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2013

Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez (2011) survey an important new literature using income taxbased data to measure the share of income held by top income groups. But changes in tax legislation that expand the tax base to include income sources (e.g. capital gains, dividends, etc.) disproportionately...

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How the Distribution of After-Tax Income Changed Over the 1990s Business Cycle: A Comparison of the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Japan

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Rovba, Ludmila; Oshio, Takashi - In: Journal of Income Distribution 17 (2008) 1, pp. 87-109

entire distribution of after-tax (disposable) income moved to the right while inequality declined. In contrast, Germany and … Japan experienced less growth, a rise in inequality, and a decline in the middle mass of their distributions, that spread … mostly to the right, much like in the United States over its 1980s business cycle. Inequality fell within the older …

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Income Inequality in the 1990s: Re-Forging a Lost Relationship?

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Couch, Kenneth A.; Houtenville, … - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2004

-2000) were more equitably distributed than over the 1980s business cycle (1979-1989) using summary inequality measures as well as …

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Income Inequality in the 1990s: Comparing the United States, Great Britain and Germany

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Rovba, Ludmila - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

distributed. Our results hold using both summary measures of inequality as well as kernel density estimations. In the United … opposite was the case in Great Britain and Germany. Income inequality fell in all three countries among the older population …

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How the Distribution of After-Tax Income Changed over the 1990s Business Cycle: A Comparison of the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Japan

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Oshio, Takashi; Rovba, Ludmila - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

-tax (disposable) income moved to the right in the United States and Great Britain while inequality declined. In contrast, Germany and … Japan experienced less growth, a rise in inequality and a decline in the middle mass of their distributions that spread … mostly to the right, much like the United States over its 1980s business cycle. Inequality fell within the older population …

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Winners and Losers over the 1990s Business Cycles in Germany, Great Britain, Japan, and the United States

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Oshio, Takashi; Rovba, Ludmila - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science … 127 (2007) 1, pp. 75-84

States experienced substantial growth in average income, a decline in inequality, and a movement of their income … distributions to the right. In contrast, Germany and Japan had less income growth, together with a rise in inequality and a decline …

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