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Mechanical Model of Personal Income Distribution

Kitov, Ivan - 2009

. Effectively, the Gini coefficient has been almost constant during the last 60 years, as reported by the Census Bureau …

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Deriving Long-Run Inequality Series from Tax Data

Leigh, Andrew - 2004

Prior to the last three decades, regular surveys on household income were rare or non-existent in many developed countries, making it difficult for economists to develop long-run series on income distribution. Using taxation statistics, which tend to be available over a longer time span, I...

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The dynamics of personal income distribution and inequality in the United States

Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We model the evolution of age-dependent personal income distribution and inequality as expressed by the Gini ratio. In …) and to compute the Gini ratios. The latter are predicted very accurately - up to 3 decimal places. We show that Gini for … of people with income between 1947 and 1999, the overall Gini reveals a tendency to decline slightly with time. The age …

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Permanent Income Inequality: Australia, Britain, Germany, and the United States Compared

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

A common critique of most measures of income inequality, which are based on a single year's income, is that they fail to take account of income mobility. If income fluctuations are large, and individuals can smooth consumption, then high inequality and high mobility may be no worse than low...

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

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...

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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century

Atkinson, A B; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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Intergenerational Mobility in Australia

Leigh, Andrew - In: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy 7 (2007) 2, pp. 1781-1781

Combining four surveys conducted over a forty year period, I calculate intergenerational earnings elasticities for Australia, using predicted earnings in parents' occupations as a proxy for actual parental earnings. In the most recent survey, the elasticity of sons' wages with respect to...

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Do rising top incomes lift all boats?

Andrews, Dan; Jencks, Christopher; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a panel of 12 developed nations observed for between 22 and 85 years. After 1960, however, a one percentage point rise in the top decile's income share is associated with a...

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

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