Abstract Information about the share of total income held by richest 1%, or other top groups, is increasingly used to discuss inequality levels and trends within between nations. A ratio group divided personal (the ‘income control total’). We compare two approaches estimating totals: ‘external’ approach World Inequality Database, an augmented ‘internal’ approach. argue in favour latter, with re...

Abstract This paper considers the role of asset price bubbles (crashes) as an important determinant in seeking a further explanation for top income shares. The caused at least part by monetary policies, along with other determinants such tax rates and innovativeness are drivers to explain surge empirical results show that correlation between inequality is positive significant. regression coeffi...

We investigate whether changes in economic inequality affect mortality in rich countries. To answer this question we use a new source of data on income inequality: tax data on the share of pretax income going to the richest 10% of the population in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the US between 1903 and 2003. Alt...

considering the importance of government fiscal policy (government spending and state tax income) in economy and its effectiveness in well-being of people, this paper examines the effects of fiscal policy on poverty during the period 1386-1363 in iran. in this paper, considering the fact that poverty changes can be divided to changes in economic growth and changes in income distribution; initia...

The relationship between income inequality and national savings is theoretically ambiguous, and past empirical studies have delivered mixed results. We revisit the question using a newly available source of data on inequality: the income share of the richest 10 percent and the richest 1 percent. Combining this with historical data on national savings rates, we are able to investigate the relati...

We exploit an exhaustive administrative dataset that includes the individual tax returns of all households in the top percentile of the income distribution in Germany to pin down the effective income taxation of households with very high incomes. Taking tax base erosion into account, we find that the top percentile of the income distribution pays an effective average tax rate of 30.5 percent an...