Atkinson, Anthony B.; Salverda, Wiemer - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 3 (2005) 4, pp. 883-913
A method is developed for using income-tax data to investigate the evolution of the highest incomes over virtually the entire 20th century. The income shares of the top 10, 5, 1, 0.5, 0.1, and 0.05 percent are analysed for the UK and the Netherlands. For considering the top shares among...