This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present …. Income concentration was high in the nineteenth century, dropped sharply after World War I and during the hyperinflation … II, German top income shares returned to 1920s levels. The German pattern stands in sharp contrast to developments in …

distribution we move, their presence has steadily increased in all top groups over the past four decades. Top income women are … opposite is true for men. Realized capital gains are more important for top income women but turn out to be of a more … transitory nature than for men. Mobility is generally higher for top income women compared to top income men but the trend since …

There are two main sources of data on income distribution. Household based surveys report mainly on inequality in … equivalised household level disposable income. Top income shares, on the other hand, focus on the tax unit as the unit of analysis … fiscal income and obtains better coverage of those at the very top of the income distribution. In this paper, we find that …

Public debates about the rise in top income shares often focus on the growing dispersion in earnings and the soaring … own explain the rise in top income shares? Are top executives replacing capital owners in the group of top-income earners … framework and uses it for exploring the changing composition of top incomes. It illustrates that changes in top income shares …

Census are used to study the composition of top income earners between 1981 and 2011. Our main finding is that, as in the … played an important role in income growth at the top, especially in more recent years. Another arguably Canadian …-specific finding is that holders of medical degrees have lost ground compared to other top income earners. Finally, despite the IT …

We use a new Australian longitudinal income tax dataset, Alife, covering 1991–2017, to examine levels and trends in the … persistence in top-income group membership, focussing on the top 1%. We summarize persistence in multiple ways, documenting levels … and trends in rates of remaining in top-income groups; re-entry to the top; the income changes associated with top-income …

Technical change that extends market scale can generate winner-take-all dynamics, with large income growth among top …

income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how … important these income comparisons are to them. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much …

related inefficiency and achieving a more equal income distribution across couples. Our results continue to hold when the …

Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income … within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women's involvement in housework. We … find that households in which the woman contributes more to the total household income are more likely to share housework …