corruption on inequality, and find the expected increase in officials’ income due to corruption and the gain in income … income ranges of Chinese income distribution even without corruption. But corruption is a significant engine of upward … incomes, practically all are in the top 5 percent when corrupt income is included. …

The paper uses the flexibility of household survey data to align their income categories and recipient units with the … income categories and units found in data produced by tax authorities. Our analyses, based on a standardized definition of … fiscal income, allow us to locate, for top-income groups, the sources of discrepancy. We find, using the cases of the United …

The paper uses the flexibility of household survey data to align their income categories and recipient units with the … income categories and units found in data produced by tax authorities. Our analyses, based on a standardized definition of … fiscal income, allow us to locate, for top-income groups, the sources of discrepancy. We find, using the cases of the United …

corruption on inequality, and find the expected increase in officials' income due to corruption and the gain in income … income ranges of Chinese income distribution even without corruption. But corruption is a significant engine of upward … incomes, practically all are in the top 5 percent when corrupt income is included. …