Top income under-coverage in developing countries not only leads to downward biased inequality indicators but might … tax records. ECUAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador, is then used to compare income inequality, total … tax revenue, and work incentives with and without top income adjustment under the baseline tax-benefit system and for a …

Technical change that extends market scale can generate winner-take-all dynamics, with large income growth among top …

Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over … from lowest to highest LS, though their average income was always higher. In spite of rapid income growth up to 2008 …/09, the less educated showed no rise in LS, while highly educated LS rose after the crash despite declining real income. In …