This paper presents new information on the fraction of adjusted gross income, and of wages and salaries, that is … reported by taxpayers in the top one half of one percent of the income distribution. This corresponds to roughly five hundred … thousand households in the late 1990s. This paper relies on data from the Treasury's Individual Income Tax Model for the period …

In a rare example of an explicit national goal for income distribution besides reducing poverty, China's leadership has … recently committed to expanding the middle-income share--moving to a less polarized "olive-shaped" distribution. Recognizing … the potential trade-offs, the paper asks whether China's experience indicates that income-polarization was a by-product of …

We review research on the dynamics and distribution of individual earnings and family income. We start with univariate … earnings models, which dominate the literature and are often used as the exogenous component of family income in structural … family income that integrate individual earnings, marriage (accounting for marital sorting), and earnings of a spouse (if …

Disappointing recent growth rates, the emergence of structurally unfavorable income and employment conditions, and …

Using panel data for a sample of households in Utah from 1850 to 1900 we find income and wealth age profiles that are … a relationship between age-income and age-wealth profiles that is consistent with a life-cycle model of consumption … given a concave and peaked age-income profile: households accumulate and then begin to draw down wealth holdings, the age …

height and per capita income. The relationships among income, nutrition, medical care, and height at the individual level … suggest that average height is nonlinearly related to per capita income and that the distribution of income is an important … determinant of average height. Empirical analysis rests on 56 height studies and per capita income estimates for 20 developed or …

income above the 50 percent bracket amount. The current law fails to meet this objective for the vast majority of these …

Inequality in income or earnings is the most indisputable fact about the distribution of income. Inequality in income … income redistribution, and the efficacy of various policy tools, economists are also concerned with establishing how various …. Economists have constructed various theories that purport to explain income distribution. Some aspects of these theories have …

impact of the current pandemic on income and poverty to inform the targeting of resources to those most affected and assess … the success of current efforts. We construct new measures of the income distribution and poverty with a lag of only a few … weeks using high frequency data from the Basic Monthly Current Population Survey (CPS), which collects income information …

Business income constitutes a large and increasing share of income and wealth at the top of the distribution. We … the focus on closely-held and pass-through firms. These considerations influence whether and how labor and capital income …