-tax reforms using a model economy that replicates the U.S. distributions of earnings, income and wealth in very much detail. We …

This paper presents series on top shares of income and wealth in Spain over the 20th century using personal income and … wealth tax return statistics. Top income shares are highest in the 1930s, fall sharply during the first two decades of the … and avoidance among top income earners in Spain before 1980 was much less prevalent than previously thought. Wealth …

increase in the concentration of financial wealth makes the occurrence of media bias more likely. Media bias is not necessarily …

of wealth, though in potentially complex ways. A non-parametric model of the wealth effect on self-employment is …, and tests are made for selection bias and separability between wealth and the controls. There is no sign of increasing … returns at low wealth, suggesting generally low start-up costs in this setting. The aggregate self-employment rate is an …

determined not only by wealth inequality but also by sectoral reallocation from agriculture to manufacturing. The model shows … that the dynamics of capital accumulation induce a reduction of wealth inequality, which is further accelerated by the … redistributive impact of the bequest tax. Through a standard politico-economic mechanism, wealth equalization pushes toward a reduced …

I discuss available evidence about the evolution of top wealth shares in the United States over the last one hundred … increase in wealth concentration and the other two methods showing at best a small increase. I discuss strengths and weaknesses … incomes and the increased importance of self-made wealth may explain difficulties in implementing each of the methods and …

This paper presents homogeneous series on top shares of income and wealth in Switzerland since 1913 using personal … Netherlands or the United States, top income and wealth shares in Switzerland are strikingly flat over the century, and display no … income and wealth tax return statistics. In contrast to other countries such as Canada, France, the United Kingdom, the …