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Immigration and the top 1 percent
We study the contribution of migrants to the rise in UK top incomes. Using administrative data on the universe of UK taxpayers, we show migrants are over-represented at the top of the income distribution, with migrants twice as prevalent in the top 0.01% as anywhere in the bottom 97%. These high incomes are predominantly from labour, rather than capital, and migrants are concentrated in only a handful of industries, predominantly finance. Almost all (90%) of the observed growth in the UK top 1% income share over the past 20 years has accrued to migrants.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 22-061
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Wirtschaft
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Advani, Arun
Koenig, Felix
Pessina, Lorenzo
Summers, Andy
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Veröffentlichung
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ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
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Mannheim
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2022
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Advani, Arun
- Koenig, Felix
- Pessina, Lorenzo
- Summers, Andy
- ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
Time of origin
- 2022
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