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From classes to copulas : wages, capital, and top incomes

Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Königs, Sebastian - 2018

Public debates about the rise in top income shares often focus on the growing dispersion in earnings and the soaring … pay for top executives and financial-sector employees. But can the change in the marginal distribution of earnings on its …, or are we rather witnessing a fusion of top capital and top earnings? This paper proposes an extension of the copula …

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The long-run history of income inequality in Denmark : top incomes from 1870 to 2010

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Søgaard, J.E. - 2013

We use historical publications and - for more recent years - micro-data from the income tax and wealth tax returns to estimate the development in income inequality in Denmark over the last 140 years. The paper breaks new ground in treating the specific features of the Danish Tax system and in...

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The colonial legacy : income inequality in former British African colonies

Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2014

This paper examines the distribution of top incomes in 15 former British colonies in Africa, drawing on evidence available from income tax records. It seeks to throw light on the position of colonial elites during the period of British rule. Just how unequal were incomes? How did the position of...