| dc.creator |
Burkhauser, Richard V. |
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| dc.creator |
Feng, Shuaizhang |
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| dc.creator |
Jenkins, Stephen P. |
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| dc.date |
2007 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2013-10-16T06:59:56Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2013-10-16T06:59:56Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2013-10-16 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18431 |
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| dc.identifier |
ppn:53498956X |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18431 |
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| dc.description |
The March Current Population Survey (CPS) is the primary data source for estimation of levels and trends in labor earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many researchers to use the ratio of the 90th and 10th percentiles of these distributions (P90/P10) rather than a more traditional 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 trends. Using internal data, we create consistent cell mean values for all top-coded public use values that, when used with public use data, closely track inequality trends in labor earnings and household income using internal data. But estimates of longer-term inequality trends with these corrected data based on P90/P10 differ from those based on the Gini coefficient. The choice of inequality measure matters. |
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| dc.language |
eng |
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| dc.publisher |
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin |
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| dc.relation |
DIW-Diskussionspapiere 699 |
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| dc.rights |
http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen |
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| dc.subject |
J3 |
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| dc.subject |
D3 |
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| dc.subject |
C8 |
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| dc.subject |
ddc:330 |
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| dc.subject |
inequality |
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| dc.subject |
income |
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| dc.subject |
earnings |
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| dc.subject |
Current Population Survey |
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| dc.subject |
decile ratio |
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| dc.subject |
Gini coefficient |
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| dc.subject |
Einkommensverteilung |
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| dc.subject |
Disparitätsmaß |
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| dc.subject |
Mikrozensus |
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| dc.subject |
USA |
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| dc.title |
Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults |
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| dc.type |
doc-type:workingPaper |
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