Burkhauser, RV and Feng, S and Jenkins, SP and Larrimore, J (2012) Recent trends in top income shares in the United State: reconciling estimates from March CPS and IRS tax return data. Review of Economics and Statistics, 94 (2). pp. 371-388. DOI https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00200
Burkhauser, RV and Feng, S and Jenkins, SP and Larrimore, J (2012) Recent trends in top income shares in the United State: reconciling estimates from March CPS and IRS tax return data. Review of Economics and Statistics, 94 (2). pp. 371-388. DOI https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00200
Burkhauser, RV and Feng, S and Jenkins, SP and Larrimore, J (2012) Recent trends in top income shares in the United State: reconciling estimates from March CPS and IRS tax return data. Review of Economics and Statistics, 94 (2). pp. 371-388. DOI https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00200
Abstract
Although most U.S. income inequality research is based on public use March CPS data, a new wave of research using IRS tax return data reports substantially faster inequality growth for recent years. We show that these apparently inconsistent estimates are largely reconciled when the income distribution and inequality are defined the same way. Using internal CPS data for 1967 to 2006, we show that CPS-based estimates of top income shares are similar to IRS data-based estimates reported by Piketty and Saez (2003). Our results imply that income inequality changes since 1993 are largely driven by changes in incomes of the top 1%.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Social and Economic Research |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 25 Sep 2013 15:36 |
Last Modified: | 05 Dec 2024 16:52 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7950 |