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Common Trends and Shocks to Top Incomes: A Structural Breaks Approach

In this paper we use newly compiled top income share data to estimate common breaks and trends across countries over the twentieth century. By using the most re-cent structural breaks techniques, our approach both confirms previous notions and offers new insights. In particular, the division into an Anglo-Saxon and a Continental European experience does not seem to be as clear cut as previously suggested. Some continental European countries have had increases in top income shares, just as in the Anglo-Saxon countries, but typically with a lag. Most notably, we find that the Nordic countries display a marked “Anglo-Saxon” pattern, with sharply increased top income shares. Unlike in the Anglo-Saxon countries, however, including realized capital gains seems important in these countries. Our results help inform theories about the causes of the recent rise in inequality.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 801

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
Distribution: General
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: General, International, or Comparative
Thema
Top Incomes
Income Inequality
Economic Development
Common Structural Breaks
Einkommen
Einkommensverteilung
Vermögensverteilung
Wertzuwachssteuer
Entwicklung
Strukturbruch
Nordeuropa
Welt

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Roine, Jesper
Waldenström, Daniel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
(wo)
Stockholm
(wann)
2009

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Roine, Jesper
  • Waldenström, Daniel
  • Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

Entstanden

  • 2009

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