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...

T he recent rise in income inequality in the United States has received considerable attention in policy debates.1 This article discusses individual income inequality trends. In doing so, we summarize results presented in existing work. As in previous studies, the article shows that income inequality has increased since the 1960s—see, for example, Dı́azGiménez et al. (2002), Eckstein and Nagypal...