Although the determinants of income are complex, the results are surprisingly uniform. To a first approximation, top … incomes follow a power-law distribution, and the redistribution of income corresponds to a change in the power-law exponent …)distribution of top incomes is uniform because it is shaped by a ubiquitous feature of social life, namely hierarchy. Using a model …

This resource describes a data source for local personal income and its distribution in Spanish municipalities. …

. The idea is that US firms have systematically redistributed income to the top of the corporate hierarchy. I test this … hypothesis using a large scale hierarchy model of the US private sector. My method is to vary the rate that income scales with …What accounts for the growth of US top income inequality? This paper proposes a hierarchical redistribution hypothesis …

hierarchy, and growth. …