USING THE PARETO DISTRIBUTION TO IMPROVE ESTIMATES OF TOPCODED EARNINGS.

Inconsistent censoring in the public-use March Current Population Survey ( CPS) limits its usefulness in measuring labor earnings trends, as previous approaches for imputing topcoded earnings systematically understate top earnings. Using Pareto estimation methods with less-censored internal data, we...

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Publicado en:Economic Inquiry Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 1263 - 1274
Autores principales: Armour, Philip, Burkhauser, Richard V., Larrimore, Jeff
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Apr2016
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