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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency,...
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Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as equivalent of continental and sub-continental levels. We investigate the economic disparity between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822346
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Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566719
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The Long-run Determinants of Inequality: What Can We Learn from Top Income Data?
Roine, Jesper; Vlachos, Jonas; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
This paper studies determinants of income inequality using a newly assembled panel of 16 countries over the entire twentieth century. We focus on three groups of income earners: the rich (P99-100), the upper middle class (P90-99), and the rest of the population (P0-90). The results show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771087
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The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 1903–2004
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006
This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903–2004. We find that, starting from levels of inequality approximately equal to those in other Western countries at the time, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645425
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What Determines Top Income Shares? Evidence from the Twentieth Century
Roine, Jesper; Vlachos, Jonas; Waldenström, Daniel - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2007
This paper examines the long-run determinants of the evolution of top income shares. Using a newly assembled panel of 16 developed countries over the entire twentieth century, we find that financial development disproportionately boosts top incomes. This effect appears to be particularly strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645497
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The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society: Sweden, 1903–2004
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2006
This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903 to 2004. We find that, starting from higher levels of inequality than in other Western countries, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first eighty years of the century. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649249
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Top Incomes in Sweden over the Twentieth Century
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2005
This paper presents homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden from 1903 to 2003 using individual tax returns data. We find that Swedish top incomes have developed more similarly to the US, Canada and the UK than to other continental European countries when capital gains are included. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649287
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What Determines Top Income Shares? Evidence from the Twentieth Century
Roine, Jesper; Vlachos, Jonas; Waldenström, Daniel - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2007
This paper examines the long-run determinants of the evolution of top in-come shares. Using a newly assembled panel of 16 developed countries over the entire twentieth century, we find that financial development dis-proportionately boosts top incomes. This effect appears to be particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649456
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Long run trends in the distribution of income and wealth
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics and … - 2014
-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was … increasing concentration, but in most cases inequality seems to have been relatively constant at a high level in the nineteenth … wealth concentration and decreasing capital incomes in the top of the distribution. Thereafter trends are more divergent …
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