Saez, Emmanuel; Veall, Michael R. - 2021
This paper presents new homogeneous series on top shares of income from 1920 to 2000 in Canada using personal income … tax return data. Top income shares display a U-shaped pattern over the century, with a precipitous drop during World War … II, followed by a slower decline until 1970. Since the late 1970s, top income shares have been increasing steadily and …