recent rise in inequality. -- Top incomes ; income inequality ; economic development ; common struc-tural breaks …In this paper we use newly compiled top income share data to estimate common breaks and trends across countries over … seem to be as clear cut as previously suggested. Some continental European countries have had increases in top income …

When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is …-term income inequality trends. … important. This paper presents three alternative measures of top income shares that more explicitly account for population and …

relatively income rich households accumulated new wealth. In the postwar period, the entire top decile lost out relative to the … inequality increased. We introduce new ways of approximating the effects of international flows and find that the recent increase … in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. …

relatively income rich households accumulated new wealth. In the postwar period, the entire top decile lost out relative to the … inequality increased. We introduce new ways of approximating the effects of international flows and find that the recent increase … in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. …