Government Ideology, Globalization, and Top Income Shares in OECD Countries

I investigate how government ideology and globalization are associated with top income shares in 16 OECD countries over the period 1970 to 2010. I use the new World Top Incomes Database. Globalization is measured by the KOF index of globalization. The results show that the top 1% income share increased more under rightwing governments than under leftwing governments. The effect was stronger when globalization proceeded more rapidly.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Schinke, Christoph
Publisher:	Munich : ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Subject:	Inequality \| partisan theory \| globalization \| panel data models

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Series:	ifo Working Paper ; 181
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	787490520 [GVK] hdl:10419/99998 [Handle] RePec:ces:ifowps:_181 [RePEc]
Classification:	D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legistures, and Voting Behavior ; f62 ; H80 - Miscellaneous Issues. General ; N30 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Income and Wealth. General, International, or Comparative
Source:	EconStor

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