Long term trends in earnings inequality: What the CPS can tell us

Richard V. Burkhauser; J. S. Butler; Shuaizhang Feng; Andrew J. Houtenville

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2003.08.011

Long term trends in earnings inequality: What the CPS can tell us

Richard V. Burkhauser
, J. S. Butler
, Shuaizhang Feng
, Andrew J. Houtenville

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Abstract

Changes in Current Population Survey (CPS) topcoding rules in the 1990s artificially increased measured earnings inequality. We create a time-consistent CPS data series and compare trends in earnings inequality from 1975 to 2001.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	295-299
Number of pages	5
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	82
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2003.08.011
State	Published - Feb 2004

Keywords

Earnings inequality
Gini trends
Topcoding

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Finance
Economics and Econometrics

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