Levels and long-term trends in earnings inequality: Overcoming current population survey censoring problems using the GB2 distribution

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-62

  Feng, Shuaizhang ^a   Burkhauser, Richard V ^a   Butler, J S ^b  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Current Population Survey; Gini values; Inequality measurement; Time consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 30744455462     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/073500105000000144     Document Type: Review

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