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Can Redistributive State Taxes Reduce Inequality?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

coefficient, but is exogenous to any behavioral response. Analyzing the effect of this redistribution index on inequality, I find … personal income. From a political economy perspective, I also find some evidence that more inequality leads states to implement … redistribution and inequality. …

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Inequality and Mortality: Long-Run Evidence from a Panel of Countries

Leigh, Andrew; Jencks, Christopher - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

We investigate whether changes in economic inequality affect mortality in rich countries. To answer this question we … use a new source of data on income inequality: tax data on the share of pretax income going to the richest 10 percent of …, the UK, and the US between 1903 and 2003. Although this measure is not a good proxy for inequality within the bottom half …

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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Australia

Atkinson, A.B.; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

-biased technological change, social norms about inequality, and the internationalisation of the market for English-speaking CEOs. …

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Economic Voting and Electoral Behaviour: How do Individual, Local and National Factors Affect the Partisan Choice?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

What impact do income and other demographic factors have on a voter’s partisan choice? Using post-election surveys of 14,000 voters in ten Australian elections between 1966 and 2001, I explore the impact that individual, local and national factors have on voters’ decisions. In these ten...

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Top Incomes and National Savings

Leigh, Andrew; Posso, Alberto - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

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 … to reject more than modest effects in either direction. We view this as suggesting that inequality at the top end of the …

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Does Equality Lead to Fraternity?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Several cross-country studies have observed a negative correlation between inequality and interpersonal trust. Using … data from 59 countries, I instrument for inequality using the relative size of the mature-aged cohort, and find that a rise … in inequality reduces trust. …

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The Distribution of Top Incomes in New Zealand

Atkinson, A. B.; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

Using taxation statistics, we estimate the income share held by top income groups in New Zealand over the period 1921-2002. We find that the income share of the richest fell during the 1930s, rose again after World War II, and steadily declined from the late-1950s until the mid-1980s. From the...

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Top Incomes in Indonesia, 1920-2004

Leigh, Andrew; Eng, Pierre van der - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

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...

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How Closely Do Top Income Shares Track Other Measures of Inequality?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

countries, I find that there is a strong and significant relationship between top income shares and broader inequality measures … measures of inequality over periods when alternative income distribution measures are of low quality, or unavailable …

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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century

Atkinson, A B; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 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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