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This chapter comprises three main parts. The first part is about data sources, the definitions of income, and the methodologies used to estimate top income shares. Both the standard sources and methods used by the traditional top income studies are described. Further, new developments that...
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countries. The new findings suggest that wealth-income ratios were lower before World War I than previously claimed, that wealth …
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countries. The new findings suggest that wealth-income ratios were lower before World War I than previously claimed, that wealth …
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countries. The new findings suggest that wealth-income ratios were lower before World War I than previously claimed, that wealth …
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, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …
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, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …
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, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …
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We compile data spanning the period 1900-2014 and up to 30 countries to study long-run patterns in the tax elasticity of top incomes. Our results show that top tax elasticities vary tremendously over time; they were medium-to-low before 1950, virtually zero during the postwar era up to 1980 and...
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, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657505
We compile data spanning the period 1900-2014 and up to 30 countries to study long-run patterns in the tax elasticity of top incomes. Our results show that top tax elasticities vary tremendously over time; they were medium-to-low before 1950, virtually zero during the postwar era up to 1980 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657515