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Do rising top incomes lift all boats?

Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a panel of 12 developed nations observed for between 22 and 85 years. After 1960, however, a one percentage point rise in the top decile's income share is associated with a statistically significant 0.12 point rise in GDP growth during the following year. This relationship is not driven by changes in either educational attainment or top tax rates. If the increase in inequality is permanent, the increase in growth appears to be permanent. However, our estimates imply that it would take 13 years for the cumulative positive effect of faster growth on the mean income of the bottom nine deciles to offset the negative effect of reducing their share of total income.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4920

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: General, International, or Comparative
Comparative Studies of Countries
Thema
Inequality
growth
income distribution
national income
Einkommensverteilung
Soziale Ungleichheit
Reichtum
Wirtschaftswachstum
Verteilungswirkung
Industriestaaten

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Andrews, Dan
Jencks, Christopher
Leigh, Andrew
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2010

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Andrews, Dan
  • Jencks, Christopher
  • Leigh, Andrew
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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