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Top-Income Adjustments and Official Statistics on Income Distribution: The Case of the UK

UK official statistics on income distribution have incorporated top-income adjustments to household survey data since 1992. This article reviews the work undertaken by the Department for Work and Pensions and the Office for National Statistics, and the academic research that influenced them, and reflects on the lessons to learn from the UK experience.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14951

Classification
Wirtschaft
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
Subject
inequality
income inequality
top incomes
tax return data
survey data
data

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Jenkins, Stephen P.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2021

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Jenkins, Stephen P.
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2021

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