What accounts for the growth of US top income inequality? This paper proposes a hierarchical redistribution hypothesis …; and (4) the "fattening" of the entire income distribution tail. This result supports the hierarchical redistribution … hypothesis. It is also consistent with the available empirical evidence on within-firm income redistribution. …

which this ratio increases coincide with those in which Democrats rule the government and there is more redistribution from … the power are characterized by a fall in the ratio and less redistribution from the rich to the rest of the population …