This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present …. Income concentration was high in the nineteenth century, dropped sharply after World War I and during the hyperinflation … II, German top income shares returned to 1920s levels. The German pattern stands in sharp contrast to developments in …

This chapter investigates how household income, income inequality, and poverty among urban residents in China have … developed since 1988, with an emphasis on the period from 2007 to 2013. We use data from the China Household Income Project …, expressed as the constant purchasing power, continued between 2007 and 2013. We also show that income growth from 2007 to 2013 …

Public debates about the rise in top income shares often focus on the growing dispersion in earnings and the soaring … own explain the rise in top income shares? Are top executives replacing capital owners in the group of top-income earners … framework and uses it for exploring the changing composition of top incomes. It illustrates that changes in top income shares …

the probability of a country escaping the middle income trap (MIT). A second contribution of this paper is to model this … probability using 1960–2015 cross-country data, focusing on the roles of income distribution or inequality and aging. It is found …; (2) relative to income distribution, aging is found to be much less important in terms of both magnitude and statistical …

We describe methods of combining administrative and survey data to improve the measurement of income. We begin by … the potential of linked data by showing how using linked administrative variables improves the measurement of income and …