scholarly journals Top Income Shares and Mortality: Evidence from Advanced Countries

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petri Bockerman
Keyword(s):  
Top Income Shares

scholarly journals Minimum Distance Testing and Top Income Shares in Korea

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Seo Cho ◽  
Myung-Ho Park ◽  
Peter C. B. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Distance ◽  
Top Income Shares

scholarly journals Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Burkhauser ◽  
Shuaizhang Feng ◽  
Stephen Jenkins ◽  
Jeff Larrimore
Keyword(s):  
Top Income Shares ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Return Data

scholarly journals The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Facundo Alvaredo ◽  
Anthony B Atkinson ◽  
Thomas Piketty ◽  
Emmanuel Saez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Income ◽  
Capital Income ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Income Share ◽  
Top Income Shares ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

The top 1 percent income share has more than doubled in the United States over the last 30 years, drawing much public attention in recent years. While other English-speaking countries have also experienced sharp increases in the top 1 percent income share, many high-income countries such as Japan, France, or Germany have seen much less increase in top income shares. Hence, the explanation cannot rely solely on forces common to advanced countries, such as the impact of new technologies and globalization on the supply and demand for skills. Moreover, the explanations have to accommodate the falls in top income shares earlier in the twentieth century experienced in virtually all high-income countries. We highlight four main factors. The first is the impact of tax policy, which has varied over time and differs across countries. Top tax rates have moved in the opposite direction from top income shares. The effects of top rate cuts can operate in conjunction with other mechanisms. The second factor is a richer view of the labor market, where we contrast the standard supply-side model with one where pay is determined by bargaining and the reactions to top rate cuts may lead simply to a redistribution of surplus. Indeed, top rate cuts may lead managerial energies to be diverted to increasing their remuneration at the expense of enterprise growth and employment. The third factor is capital income. Overall, private wealth (relative to income) has followed a U-shaped path over time, particularly in Europe, where inherited wealth is, in Europe if not in the United States, making a return. The fourth, little investigated, element is the correlation between earned income and capital income, which has substantially increased in recent decades in the United States.

scholarly journals Conditional Status Quo Bias and Top Income Shares: How U.S. Political Institutions Have Benefited the Rich

2014 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter K. Enns ◽  
Nathan J. Kelly ◽  
Jana Morgan ◽  
Thomas Volscho ◽  
Christopher Witko
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Status Quo Bias ◽  
Top Income Shares ◽  
The Rich

scholarly journals Trends and Cycles of Top Income Shares in Greece: 1957–2010

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 14-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kostas Chrissis ◽  
Alexandra Livada
Keyword(s):  
Top Income Shares

scholarly journals Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the United States: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data

2012 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 371-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard V. Burkhauser ◽  
Shuaizhang Feng ◽  
Stephen P. Jenkins ◽  
Jeff Larrimore
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Top Income Shares ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Return Data
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