The long-run determinants of inequality: What can we learn from top income data?

This paper studies determinants of income inequality using a newly assembled panel of 16 countries over the entire twentieth century. We focus on three groups of income earners: the rich (P99–100), the upper middle class (P90–99), and the rest of the population (P0–90). The results show that periods...

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Volume:	93
Main Author:	Roine, Jesper Vlachos, Jonas Waldenström, Daniel
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Trade Academic
Place of publication:	LAUSANNE Elsevier B.V 2009 ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA Elsevier
published in:	Journal of public economics Vol. 93; no. 7; pp. 974 - 988
Data of publication:	2009
ISSN:	0047-2727 1879-2316
EISSN:	1879-2316
Discipline:	Economics Mathematics Political Science
Series:	Journal of Public Economics
Subjects:	Income inequality Financial development Taxation Top incomes Government spending Economic development Trade openness Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Top incomes Income inequality Financial development Trade openness Government spending Taxation Economic development Income distribution Expenditures, Public Equality Income inequality D31 F10 G10 H20 Financial development N30 Taxation Top incomes Government spending Economic development Trade openness TRADE GROWTH
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Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2009 Web of Knowledge Web of Science RePEc RePEc IDEAS CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS