Survey Under-Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality: What is the Role of the UK's SPI Adjustment?

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

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Survey Under-Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality: What is the Role of the UK's SPI Adjustment?

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

Fiscal Studies | WILEY | Published : 2018

DOI: 10.1111/1475-5890.12158

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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 research is supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (award DP150102409). Jenkins's research is also partially supported by core funding of the Research Centre on Micro-Social Change at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) by the University of Essex and the UK Economic and Social Research Council (award ES/L009153/1). For helpful discussions about the HBAI data and SPI adjustments, the authors thank Peter Matejic and his DWP colleagues and Jeremy Reuben from HMRC's SPI team. They also gratefully acknowledge the perceptive comments of the three anonymous referees.