Like the other chapters in this volume of the Handbook of Income Distribution (and its
predecessor), the aim of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular …

This paper introduces a new long-run data set based on archival data from historical waves
of the Survey of Consumer Finances. Studying the joint distribution of household income …

Although most US 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 …

The inequality of earnings and of family incomes in the United States has increased since
the late 1970s. The large rise in earnings inequality between the 1970s and the 1990s could …

This book is about how much people earn and why the distribution of earnings has been
changing over time. The gap between the top and bottom in the United States has widened …

This article provides an introduction to methods for the measurement of economic inequality.
It reviews the inequality measures that economists have developed, and explains how one …

Many different variables can be used to evaluate the distribution of living standards in a
society. These focal variables include monetary indicators, such as expenditure, income …

Official income inequality statistics indicate a sharp rise in inequality over the past five
decades. These statistics do not accurately reflect inequality because income is poorly …

This chapter discusses the formal and informal techniques that are commonly used to give
quantitative answers in the field of distributional analysis. To this end, it covers subjects …

We use 2‐year panels from the Current Population Survey to provide a detailed accounting
of family income volatility from 1980 to 2009. Volatility doubled overall, and the increase was …