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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270632
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Government Ideology, Globalization, and Top Income Shares in OECD Countries
Schinke, Christoph - 2014
I investigate how government ideology and globalization are associated with top income shares in 16 OECD countries over the period 1970 to 2010. I use the new World Top Incomes Database. Globalization is measured by the KOF index of globalization. The results show that the top 1% income share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010378317
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Long-Run Changes in the Concentration of Wealth: An Overview of Recent Findings
Waldenström, Daniel; Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper - 2007
The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development … characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the evolution of the wealth distribution in developed countries is … transition. The data used originates from the taxation of wealth and estates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320107
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Government ideology, globalization, and top income shares in OECD countries
Schinke, Christoph - 2014
I investigate how government ideology and globalization are associated with top income shares in 16 OECD countries over the period 1970 to 2010. I use the new World Top Incomes Database. Globalization is measured by the KOF index of globalization. The results show that the top 1% income share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359788
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Government Ideology, Globalization, and Top Income Shares in OECD Countries
Schinke, Christoph - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2014
I investigate how government ideology and globalization are associated with top income shares in 16 OECD countries over the period 1970 to 2010. I use the new World Top Incomes Database. Globalization is measured by the KOF index of globalization. The results show that the top 1% income share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877578
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The Economic Origins of the Evil Eye Belief
Gershman, Boris - 2013
societies wealth differentiation and vulnerability of productive assets were the key factors enabling envy-induced destructive … belief and measures of wealth inequality, controlling for potential confounding factors such as patterns of spatial and cross …-pastoral societies that tend to sustain higher levels of inequality and where vulnerable material wealth plays a dominant role in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010925728
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Chapter 8. Post-1970 Trends in Within-Country Inequality and Poverty : Rich and Middle-Income Countries
Morelli, Salvatore; Smeeding, Timothy; Thompson, Jeffrey - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 593-696). 2015
Like the other chapters in this volume of the Handbook of Income Distribution (and its predecessor), the aim of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular area of research. We examine the literature on post-1970 trends in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025343
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Long-Run Changes in the Concentration of Wealth: An Overview of Recent Findings
Waldenström, Daniel; Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development … characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the evolution of the wealth distribution in developed countries is … transition. The data used originates from the taxation of wealth and estates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645360
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Homogeneous middles vs. heterogeneous tails, and the end of the ‘Inverted-U’: the share of the rich is what it's all about
Palma, J.G. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2011
This paper examines the current global scene of within-nations distributional disparities. There are three main conclusions: first, that the statistical evidence for the ‘upwards’ side of the “Inverted-U” between inequality and income per capita seems to have vanished, as many lowand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024885
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The economic origins of the evil eye belief
Gershman, Boris - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 110 (2015) C, pp. 119-144
societies wealth differentiation and vulnerability of productive assets were the key factors enabling envy-induced destructive … belief and measures of wealth inequality, controlling for potential confounding factors such as patterns of spatial and cross …-pastoral societies that tend to sustain higher levels of inequality and where vulnerable material wealth plays a dominant role in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011190125