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Permanent Income Inequality: Australia, Britain, Germany, and the United States Compared

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

A common critique of most measures of income inequality, which are based on a single year's income, is that they fail to take account of income mobility. If income fluctuations are large, and individuals can smooth consumption, then high inequality and high mobility may be no worse than low...

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More Inequality, Less Social Mobility

Andrews, Dan; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

We investigate the relationship between inequality and intergenerational mobility. Proxying fathers’ earnings with using detailed occupational data, we find that sons who grew up in countries that were more unequal in the 1970s were less likely to have experienced social mobility by the...

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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

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...

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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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Cross Sectional Facts for Macroeconomists

Krueger, Dirk; Perri, Fabrizio; Pistaferri, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

cycle, of several dimensions of economic inequality, including wages, labor earnings, income, consumption, and wealth. After …

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Wealth Holdings and Portfolio Allocation of Older Couples: The Role of Spouses’ Marital History

Ulker, Aydogan - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004

This paper analyses the role of the elderly couples’ past marital history in determining their current wealth holdings … the life cycle. While the net cost of divorce in terms of household wealth accumulation is higher for men than it is for … couples’ marital history plays a minor role in explaining the dispersion in their wealth holdings near the end of the life …

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Japan And The Great Divergence, 725-1874

Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Broadberry, Stephen N; Fukao, Kyoji; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Japanese GDP per capita grew at an annual rate of 0.04 per cent between 725 and 1874, but the growth was episodic, with the increase in per capita income concentrated in three periods, 1150-1280, 1450-1600 and after 1730, interspersed with periods of stable per capita income. There is a...

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How Did Japan Catch-Up On The West? A Sectoral Analysis Of Anglo-Japanese Productivity Differences, 1885-2000

Broadberry, Stephen N; Fukao, Kyoji; Zammit, Nick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Although Japanese economic growth after the Meiji Restoration is often characterised as a gradual process of trend acceleration, comparison with the United States suggests that catching-up only really started after 1950, due to the unusually dynamic performance of the US economy before 1950. A...

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The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...

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The Democratic Transition

Murtin, Fabrice; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Over the last two centuries, many countries experienced regime transitions toward democracy. We document this democratic transition over a long time horizon. We use historical time series of income, education and democracy levels from 1870 to 2000 to explore the economic factors associated with...

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