Deriving long-run inequality series from tax data

Economic Record

Volumn 81, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Leigh, Andrew ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TAX SYSTEM;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33845514324     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: 14754932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2005.00244.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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