In recent years, researchers have used taxation statistics to estimate the share of total income held by the richest … groups, such as the top 10% or the top 1%. Compiling a standardised top income shares dataset for thirteen developed … countries, I find that there is a strong and significant relationship between top income shares and broader inequality measures …

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … at the same time a shift in the burden of taxation from the top to the middle of the income distribution. This paper … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …

individual-level data from the ABS Income Distribution Survey. It present measures of changes in earnings inequality for …

Using taxation and household survey data, this paper estimates top income shares for Indonesia during 1920-2004. Our … results suggest that top income shares grew during the 1920s and 1930s, but fell in the post-war era. In more recent decades …, we observe a sharp rise in top income shares during the late-1990s, coincident with the economic downturn, and some …

use a new source of data on income inequality: tax data on the share of pretax income going to the richest 10 percent of … of the income distribution, it is a good proxy for changes in the top half of the distribution and for the Gini … coefficient. In the absence of country and year fixed effects, the income share of the top decile is negatively related to life …

The relationship between income inequality and national savings is theoretically ambiguous, and past empirical studies … have delivered mixed results. We revisit the question using a newly available source of data on inequality: the income … relationship between lagged top income shares and current savings rates, and our standard errors are small enough that we are able …

personal income taxation financed by a board based consumption tax. …

In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to control for individual unobservable heterogeneity … the panel if the unhealthy are more likely to drop out of the sample. Using cross-sectional variations in income and …