The paper calculates the top income shares in Greece from 1967 (the seizure of power by military dictatorship) until 2017 aftermath debt crisis). This long-run perspective allows for examination relationship between inequality and institutional transformations, namely democracy, finance, crisis. We find particular that (a) transition to democracy did not affect share decile, whereas social had ...

The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is therefore the next s...

This paper presents series on top shares of income and wealth in Spain using personal income and wealth tax return statistics. Top income shares are highest in the 1930s, fall sharply during the first decade of the Franco dictatorship, then remain stable and low till the 1980s, and have increased since the mid 1990s. The top 0.01% income share in Spain estimated from income tax data is comparab...