[“Not the typical high earner.” Self-perception and class identification among high-income earners in Sweden] Income inequality has increased Sweden recent decades, are winners. However, despite its privileged position, group been largely absent from research on class. In Mikael Svensson Lena Sohl’s article, we therefore get a much-needed insight into Swedish earners’ self-perception. The autho...

Violent victimization by offenders has led to concerns over the negative consequences that this has on victims, including a greater fear of crime. Because their disadvantaged status leads to greater rates of violent victimization, it is speculated that fear of crime will be higher among the poor and racial minorities. Examining the common violent crime of assault, this hypothesis is tested by c...

This paper is concerned with distributive aspects of crucial economic and institutional reforms experienced by income sources in Uruguay after the late eighties. These reforms involved both, the labor market and the pensions system, and we provide empirical evidence about the different way they affected the distribution of income. The distribution of income across all earners at the end of the ...

The Canadian federal tax reform of 1988 replaced a spousal tax exemption with a non-refundable tax credit. This reduced the “jointness” of the tax system: after the reform, secondary earners’ effective “first dollar” marginal tax rates no longer depended on the marginal tax rates of their spouses. In practice, the effective “first dollar” marginal tax rates faced by women with high income husba...

This paper analyzes redistribution by municipalities in a metropolitan area using the classical model of residential land use in a monocentric city. Crossing bid rent curves lead to spatial segregation of household types which might shield high-income households from redistribution by municipalities. If rich households live farer away from the central business district than poor households, the...

The higher-income group earners in Malaysia contribute a significant amount of direct revenue to the government. Hence, it is vital measure their level tax compliance by evaluating variable that determines behaviour. purpose this research, guided Social Influence Theory (SIT), analyse impact morale, social dynamics, and knowledge on among higher income earners. This study employed quantitative ...

In this Section we study the optimal design of top income taxes.1 We have already covered optimal top income taxation in a simple Mirrlees framework in Section 2. Today, we will start from the “trickle down” model with endogenous wages introduced by Stiglitz (1982). We then analyze an example of optimal taxation in a general equilibrium model where workers choose between di↵erent occupations/se...

In order to answer the problem of quantifying the degree of unequalness among the individual shares in the distribution of income, several authors proposed and characterized the well-known additively decomposable measures of relative income inequality. In a previous paper, Perez, Caso and Gil [12] verified that for a large uncensused population of income earners, the additively decomposable ind...