Income inequality has risen fast because growth mainly benefitted top incomes

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Top Incomes

scholarly journals Income Inequality from 1960–2012: A Brief Time-Series History of Capital and Labour

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-101
Author(s):  
Eoin Flaherty
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Time Series Analysis ◽  
National Income ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Total Income ◽  
Series Analysis ◽  
Top Incomes ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

This commentary examines two principal forms of inequality and their evolution since the 1960s: the division of national income between capital and labour, and the share of total income held by the top 1 per cent of earners. Trends are linked to current discussions of inequality drivers such as financialisation, and a brief time-series analysis of the effects of trade and financial sector growth on top incomes is presented.

scholarly journals Top incomes in China: Data collection and the impact on income inequality

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 101495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qinghai Li ◽  
Shi Li ◽  
Haiyuan Wan
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Top Incomes ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Trends in US Spatial Inequality: Concentrating Affluence and a Democratization of Poverty

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 520-525
Author(s):  
Cecile Gaubert ◽  
Patrick Kline ◽  
Damián Vergara ◽  
Danny Yagan
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Current Population Survey ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
Spatial Inequality ◽  
Current Population Survey Data ◽  
Us States ◽  
Top Incomes ◽  
Per Capita

We use Bureau of Economic Analysis, census, and Current Population Survey data to study trends in income inequality across US states and counties from 1960-2019. Both states and counties have diverged in terms of per capita pretax incomes since the late1990s, with transfers serving to dampen this divergence. County incomes have been diverging since the late 1970s. These trends in mean income mask opposing patterns among top-and bottom-income quantiles. Top incomes have diverged markedly across states since the late 1970s. In contrast, bottom-income quantiles and poverty rates have converged across areas in recent decades.

Top Incomes in Chile: A Historical Perspective on Income Inequality, 1964–2017

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 850-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignacio Flores ◽  
Claudia Sanhueza ◽  
Jorge Atria ◽  
Ricardo Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Top Incomes

scholarly journals The stability of income inequality in Brazil, 2006-2012: an estimate using income tax data and household surveys

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 971-986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Medeiros ◽  
Pedro Herculano Guimarães Ferreira de Souza ◽  
Fábio Ávila de Castro
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Income Growth ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Total Income ◽  
Top Incomes ◽  
Tax Returns ◽  
National Household Survey ◽  
The Stability

Object: the level and evolution of income inequality among adults in Brazil between 2006 and 2012.Objectives: to calculate the level of inequality, its trend over the years and the share of income growth appropriated by different social groups.Methodology: We combined tax data from the Annual Personal Income Tax Returns (Declaração Anual de Ajuste do Imposto de Renda da Pessoa Física - DIRPF) and the Brazilian National Household Survey (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios - PNAD) to construct a complete distribution of total income among adults in Brazil. We applied Pareto interpolations to income tax tabulations to arrive at the distribution within income groups. We tested the results, comparing the PNAD to the Brazilian Consumption and Expenditure Survey (Pesquisa de Orçamentos Familiares - POF) and to data from the Census Subsample Survey (Census.Results: We found evidence that income inequality in Brazil is higher than previously thought and that it remained stable between 2006 and 2012; in making these findings, we thus diverged from most studies on the dynamics of inequality in Brazil.. There was income growth, but the top incomes have appropriated most of this growth.

scholarly journals Tax reforms and income inequality in former Yugoslav countries: Escaping the avant-garde neoliberalism in the income tax policy

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-252
Author(s):  
Jelena Zarkovic-Rakic ◽  
Marko Vladisavljevic
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Tax Reforms ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Top Incomes ◽  
Low Incomes ◽  
Income Tax Policy ◽  
Microsimulation Modeling ◽  
Redistributive Effects ◽  
Income Tax Reform

After the breakup of former Yugoslavia Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia followed different income tax reform trajectories that could explain currently different levels of income inequality in these countries. Our paper analyzes redistributive effects of introducing progressive tax systems, like the ones currently implemented in Slovenia and Croatia, in the Serbian context. Using microsimulation modeling and Survey on Income and Living Conditions data for 2017 our results suggest that implementation of both Croatian and Slovenian tax system would yield lower levels of income inequality and poverty if applied in Serbia. Slovenian system achieves larger decrease in inequality due to higher tax burden on the top incomes and brings significant increase in tax revenues. Croatian tax schedule achieves stronger decrease in poverty as more generous personal allowance exempt higher portions of low incomes from labour taxes.

scholarly journals Using Tax Data to Better Capture Top Incomes in Official UK Income Inequality Statistics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic Webber ◽  
Richard Tonkin ◽  
Martin Shine
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Top Incomes
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