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What makes you "super-rich"? : new evidence from an analysis of football players' earnings
Carrieri, Vincenzo; Principe, Francesco; Raitano, Michele - 2017
This article investigates the influence of performance, popularity and power on "superearnings" using a unique panel dataset of Italian football players built on various sources of data. Using OLS, Panel and Unconditional Quantile regression techniques, we find that detailed measures of these...
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Government ideology, globalization, and top income shares in OECD countries
Schinke, Christoph - 2014
I investigate how government ideology and globalization are associated with top income shares in 16 OECD countries over the period 1970 to 2010. I use the new World Top Incomes Database. Globalization is measured by the KOF index of globalization. The results show that the top 1% income share...
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Capital shares and income inequality : evidence from the long run
Bengtsson, Erik; Waldenström, Daniel - 2015
This paper investigates the relationship between the capital share in national income and personal income inequality … income shares with a broader measure of inequality (Gini coefficient), the positive relationship re-mains but becomes …
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Reversal of the Kuznets curve : study on the inequality-development relation using top income shares data
Tuominen, Elina - 2015
This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question …
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Mobility of top incomes in Germany
Jenderny, Katharina - 2013
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...
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Global inequality : how large is the effect of top incomes?
Jorda, Vanesa; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2016
In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted … top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of … individuals in hous6000 unehold surveys generate a downward bias in global inequality estimates that ranges between 15 per cent …
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Richer or more numerous or both? : the role of population and economic growth for top income shares
Krolage, Carla; Peichl, Andreas; Waldenström, Daniel - 2018
When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is … that the U-shaped inequality trend over the past century holds up, but with important qualifications. Using measures that …-term income inequality trends. …
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Inequality, economic growth and trade openness : a case study for Central and Eastern European countries (ECE)
Neagu, Olimpia; Dumiter, Florin; Braica, Alexandra - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 18 (2016) 43, pp. 557-574
The paper analyzes the phenomenon of income inequality in ten countries from Eastern and Central Europe (ECE), by … highlighting two aspects: (1) the link between growth and income inequality; (2) the effects of trade openess and other key factors … on income inequality, such as: foreign direct investment (FDI), market capitalization and educational level of labour …
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Top incomes in Germany, 1871-2014
Bartels, Charlotte - 2018
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 years of the 1920s, and increased rapidly throughout the...
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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992-2001
Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …
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