Mehr Arbeitsplätze im unteren Bereich des Arbeitsmarktes werden häufig durch die hohe Steuerbelastung verhindert. Derhalb wurden in mehreren europäischen Ländern Initiativen gestartet, um in diesem Teil des Arbeitsmarktes neue Arbeitsplätze zu schaffen. In diesem Artikel werden diese...

The share of pre-tax income flowing to the top of the UK income distribution increased continually and substantially in the three decades leading up to the financial crisis, but has changed little since 2013. Using microdata sampled from UK tax records, we describe the nature of top incomes in...

Atkinson's book Inequality: What Can Be Done? (Harvard University Press, 2015) sets out a range of concrete proposals aimed at reducing income inequality, which cover a very broad span but include major changes to the income tax and social transfers system and the minimum wage. These are framed...

Top income under-coverage in developing countries not only leads to downward biased inequality indicators but might also affect the ex-ante evaluation of progressive tax reforms. We propose a simple adjustment to top incomes for formal employees (e.g. employees affiliated with social security)...