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Deriving Long-Run Inequality Series from Tax Data

Leigh, Andrew - 2004

Prior to the last three decades, regular surveys on household income were rare or non-existent in many developed countries, making it difficult for economists to develop long-run series on income distribution. Using taxation statistics, which tend to be available over a longer time span, I...

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Mechanical Model of Personal Income Distribution

Kitov, Ivan - 2009

. Effectively, the Gini coefficient has been almost constant during the last 60 years, as reported by the Census Bureau …

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The dynamics of personal income distribution and inequality in the United States

Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We model the evolution of age-dependent personal income distribution and inequality as expressed by the Gini ratio. In …) and to compute the Gini ratios. The latter are predicted very accurately - up to 3 decimal places. We show that Gini for … of people with income between 1947 and 1999, the overall Gini reveals a tendency to decline slightly with time. The age …

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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Do rising top incomes lift all boats?

Andrews, Dan; Jencks, Christopher; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a panel of 12 developed nations observed for between 22 and 85 years. After 1960, however, a one percentage point rise in the top decile's income share is associated with a...

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

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Long run trends in Australian executive remuneration : BHP 1887 - 2012

Pottenger, Mike; Leigh, Andrew - 2013

Outside the US, little is known of long-run trends in executive compensation. We fill this gap by studying BHP, a resources giant that has long been one of the largest companies on the Australian stock market. From 1887 to 2013, trends in CEO and director remuneration (relative to average...

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Intergenerational Income Mobility in Urban China

Gong, Cathy Honge - 2014

This paper estimates the intergenerational income elasticity for urban China, paying careful attention to the potential biases induced by income fluctuations and life cycle effects. Our preferred estimates are that the intergenerational income elasticities are 0.74 for father-son, 0.84 for...

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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Australia

Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2006

Using taxation statistics, we estimate the income share held by top income groups in Australia over the period 1921-2002. We find that the income share of the richest fell from the 1920s until the mid-1940s, rose briefly in the post-war decade, and then declined until the early-1980s. During the...

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Modelling the Overall Personal Income Distribution in the USA from 1994 to 2002

Kitov, Ivan - 2006

Numerical modelling of the personal income distribution (PID) in the USA from 1950 to 2003 is accomplished based on a microeconomic model for the personal income evolution. It is shown that the overall PID demonstrates the existence of some fixed hierarchical income distribution structure in the...

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