Mobility of top incomes matters for both the openness of the income elite and the share of total income that this group … receives. It is thus an important complement information to the growing snapshot literature on top income concentration. I use … microlevel panel data of German income tax files that is highly representative for top income households. Top income mobility is …

This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present …. Income concentration was high in the nineteenth century, dropped sharply after World War I and during the hyperinflation … II, German top income shares returned to 1920s levels. The German pattern stands in sharp contrast to developments in …

This paper presents estimates of income concentration and inequality for Norway using a new comprehensive measure of … income, which identifies business income as it is earned by companies rather than when it is paid out as dividends to owners … income attributable to the top 1% of the distribution more than doubles and the Gini coefficient estimates increase by about …

This paper presents estimates of income concentration and inequality for Norway using a new comprehensive measure of … income, which identifies business income as it is earned by companies rather than when it is paid out as dividends to owners … income attributable to the top 1% of the distribution more than doubles and the Gini coefficient estimates increase by about …

This paper considers the phenomenon of income mobility during the process of economic transition in Russia. The study … sharp changes in the distribution of income among Russian households. Simultaneously with the emergence of the Russian … nouveau rich, whole strata of the population have seen their sources of income dry up, and their life savings wiped out in the …

and upper bound estimates – both for gross and net earnings based either on periodical or permanent income – for both …

This chapter investigates how household income, income inequality, and poverty among urban residents in China have … developed since 1988, with an emphasis on the period from 2007 to 2013. We use data from the China Household Income Project …, expressed as the constant purchasing power, continued between 2007 and 2013. We also show that income growth from 2007 to 2013 …

income and its distribution than the available household or other survey sources. However, there are difficulties in using … tax data across time, as both policy and reporting changes influence the administrative statistics of income. This paper … uses two sets of adjustments to generate a consistent personal income series for the 2011-2018 period: upward adjustments …

This paper analyzes the distribution and composition of pre-tax national income in Germany since 1992, combining … personal income tax returns, household survey data, and national accounts. Inequality rose from the 1990s to the late 2000s due … incomes across the bottom 90% increased. The top 1% income share, dominated by business income, remained relatively stable …