This paper presents new evidence on the study of income mobility in Ecuador over the period 2004 - 11. We utilize … longitudinal data of individual income tax returns to measure income mobility both at the top and at the middle of the income … distribution, and we find three main empirical results. First, income mobility in Ecuador is low for top incomes: the probability …

This paper investigates how taxes affect relative mobility in the income distribution in the US. Household panel data … probability of staying in the same income decile. Exogenous variation in marginal tax rates is identified by using counterfactual … rates based on legislated changes in the tax schedule. I find that higher marginal tax rates reduce income mobility. An …

This paper provides new evidence on the study of income mobility in Ecuador over the 2004-2011 period. We use … longitudinal data of individual income tax returns to measure income mobility both at the top and middle of the income distribution …. We found three main empirical results: first, income mobility in Ecuador is low for top incomes, the probability of …

We use a new Australian longitudinal income tax dataset, Alife, covering 1991–2017, to examine levels and trends in the … persistence in top-income group membership, focussing on the top 1%. We summarize persistence in multiple ways, documenting levels … and trends in rates of remaining in top-income groups; re-entry to the top; the income changes associated with top-income …

. First, it argues that Chile needs to increase income redistribution through its tax and transfer system towards levels … should be less disparate, as they explain around 70% of income inequality. This should be done by updating labour legislation …

While policymakers are rightly concerned about evidence of rising income concentration at the top, it is often wrongly …. This new study, based on more than 20 million tax records over 10 years, examines the highest income earners in Ireland but … also who moves up and down the income ladder over time. While income inequality has increased in most OECD countries, in …

To contribute to the debate on the recent inequality fall in Latin America, we provide evidence on the primary income … distribution in Uruguay for 2009-2016 and assess mobility patterns. Comparing household surveys micro-data and a unique array of … matched personal-firm income tax records, we find that trends are sensitive to the data source and inequality measure. Gini …

It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income … distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in … increase in the proportion of self-employed individuals in the labor force increases income polarization by tearing down floors …

over cohorts on the distribution of net wealth we impose the homeownership pattern of the US on Germany and ask: What would … the net wealth distribution in Germany look like if German households were distributed across tenure status along cohorts … to the wealth distribution. Imposing the structure of the US on Germany leads to a large increase in the German median …

(log) income are AR(1) and relying on pseudo-panel procedures to estimate the corresponding auto-regressive coefficient; b … of the AR coefficient, the income mobility matrix in the synthetic panel closely approximates that of the genuine matrix …) abstracting from (log) normality assumptions; c) generating a close to perfect match of the terminal year income distribution and …