s. This contributed to the well-known increase in the top 1 percent's share of total income, exacerbating rising … the asymmetries in the association, tests for robustness to alternative income definitions, and discusses the potential …

This paper summarizes the main findings of a recent literature that has constructed top income shares time series over … the long-run for more than 20 countries using income tax statistics. Top incomes represent a small share of the population … but a very significant share of total income and total taxes paid. Hence, aggregate economic growth per capita and Gini …

This paper summarizes the main findings of a recent literature that has constructed top income shares time series over … the long-run for more than 20 countries using income tax statistics. Top incomes represent a small share of the population … but a very significant share of total income and total taxes paid. Hence, aggregate economic growth per capita and Gini …

ten or twenty years ago. It has now become common to have income distribution variables playing a pivotal role in economic … income distribution. The overall perspective is intentionally broad. As with landscapes, adopting various points of view on a … given issue may often be the only way of perceiving its essence or reality. Accordingly, income distribution issues in the …