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Getting the Measure of Inequality
I focus on one of the most-commonly-cited 'facts'; about UK income inequality - that it has changed little over the last 30 years - and reflect on how robust that description is. I look at a number of fundamental issues in inequality measurement related to inequality concepts (e.g., inequality aversion, relative versus absolute inequality, and inequality of opportunity versus outcome), definitions of 'income', the income-receiving unit, and the reference period, and related data issues. There are grounds for arguing that income inequality levels are higher, and the inequality increase over time greater, than conventional approaches indicate.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14996
Classification
Wirtschaft
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
Subject
top incomes
income inequality
inequality
tax return data
survey data
income inequality
inequality
tax return data
survey data
Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Jenkins, Stephen P.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2022
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12.07.2024, 1:20 PM CEST
Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Jenkins, Stephen P.
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2022
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