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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

, while the least mobile was Germany. However, as a comparison of points (2) and (3) demonstrates, mobility had little effect …

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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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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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Indian GDP Before 1870: Some Preliminary Estimates and a Comparison with Britain

Broadberry, Stephen N; Gupta, Bishnupriya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper provides estimates of Indian GDP constructed from the output side for the pre-1871 period, and combines them with population estimates to track changes in living standards. Indian per capita GDP declined steadily between 1600 and 1871. As British living standards increased from the...

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Wealth inequality and household structure: US vs. Spain

Bover, Olympia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We study the link between culturally inherited household structure and wealth distribution in international comparisons … distribution. Imposing the Spanish household structure to the US wealth distribution has little effect on summary measures of … between these wealth distribution differences and wealth composition. Finally, we present results for the within …

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Flat Tax Reforms in the US: A Boon for the Income Poor

Díaz-Giménez, Javier; Pijoan-Mas, Josep - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

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

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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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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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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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