Income inequality in the United States: what the individual tax files say

Hafiz Akhand () and Haoming Liu

Applied Economics Letters, 2002, vol. 9, issue 4, 255-259

Abstract: Recent studies find the response error in the CPS is systematically related to income and gender. How such systematic misreporting of earnings can affect income inequality estimates is shown. Income inequality in the US can be more acute than is thought.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850110060998

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