This paper investigates how government ideology and globalization are associated with top income shares in 17 OECD … more under rightwing governments than under leftwing governments. The ideology-induced effect was stronger when … OECD countries. Government ideology does not turn out to have a statistically significant effect on top income shares in …

context. In this context, existing literature so far fails to consider the potential indirect channel via political ideology … income mobility and political ideology, such that the POUM-effect is allowed to vary with political beliefs. We find a robust …