Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 19, No. 1 (1970), pp. 1-17 (17 pages) The official Index of Retail Prices measures changes in the total cost of the basket ...

Changes in overall economic conditions may affect real household income levels and also how income is distributed across households. Analysis using annual data from 1967 to 2023 shows that the adverse ...

Michael Linden examines how our tax code has grown less effective at dampening income inequality, and how various proposals to reform the code would affect inequality. Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) tax ...

This paper was presented at the First Conference of the Americas, held by the Organization of American States in Washington on 6 March 1998. Great social inequality has long been a frustrating feature ...