Top incomes and inequality in the UK: reconciling estimates from household survey and tax return data

Richard V Burkhauser; Nicolas Herault; Stephen P Jenkins; Roger Wilkins

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Top incomes and inequality in the UK: reconciling estimates from household survey and tax return data

Richard V Burkhauser, Nicolas Herault, Stephen P Jenkins, Roger Wilkins

Oxford Economic Papers | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2018

DOI: 10.1093/oep/gpx041

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Stephen Jenkins Author Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

Nicolas Herault Author Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

Roger Wilkins Author Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (number DP150102409), and core funding of the Research Centre on Micro-Social Change at the Institute for Social and Economic Research by the University of Essex and the UK Economic and Social Research Council (grant number ES/L009153). For helpful discussions and perceptive comments on an earlier version, we thank Facundo Alvaredo, Tony Atkinson, and Peter Matejic (DWP), three referees, and audiences at the IARIW 2016 conference, Nuffield College, York, Alicante, and Clermont Ferrand.