top incomes a global perspective may 2010

[...]... Figures and Tables The top 0.1% income shares in Argentina, USA, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Canada, and UK The top 0.01% income shares in Argentina, USA, Spain, and France Agricultural and livestock exports and income at the top, Argentina, 1932 1956 Composition of assessed income in Argentina, 1932 1958 The top 1% income share in Argentina and income weighted marginal tax rate The top 1% income share... 1 3A. 2 1 3A. 3 1 3A. 4 1 3A. 5 1 3A. 6 1 3A. 7 1 3A. 8 1 3A. 9 1 3A. 10 1 3A. 11 1 3A. 12 1 3A. 13 1 3A. 14 1 3A. 15 1 3A. 16 1 3A. 17 1 3A. 18 1 3A. 19 1 3A. 20 1 3A. 21 1 3A. 22 1 3A. 23 1 3A. 24 Summary of major political changes over period covered for countries in Volumes I and II Shares in total before tax income, France Shares in total before tax income, UK Shares in total before tax income, USA Shares in total before tax income, Canada... the years of socialist planning and a comparable We are grateful to Tony Atkinson, Amaresh Bagchi, Gaurav Datt, Govinda Rao, Martin Ravallion, T N Srinivasan, Suresh Tendulkar, and two anonymous referees for useful discussions, to Sarah Voitchovsky for excellent research assistance, and to the MacArthur Foundation for financial support A shorter version of this chapter was published as A Banerjee and... Shares in total before tax income, Australia Shares in total before tax income, New Zealand Shares in total before tax income, Germany Shares in total before tax income, the Netherlands Shares in total before tax income, Switzerland Shares in total before tax income, Ireland Shares in total before tax income, India Shares in total before tax income, China Shares in total before tax income, Japan Shares... in Japan, 1925 2005 151 List of Figures and Tables 3C.1 3C.2 3C.3 3D.1 Reference totals for wage earners, wage income, and inflation, Japan, 1948 2005 Top wage income shares in Japan, 1929 2005 Wage income tax and marginal tax rates in Japan, 1951 2005 Sensitivity analysis using the Japanese NSFIE data, 1979 1999 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Top income shares in Indonesia, 1920 1939 and 1982 2004 Tax rates and top. .. marginal tax rate in Portugal, 1976 2005 567 568 11.5 Top 0.1% shares in Portugal, UK, Italy, France, Switzerland, United States, and Spain 11.6 The top 0.01% income share in Portugal and counterfactual effects of emigration 11.7 Top wage shares in Portugal from tax statistics, 1964 2000 11.8 Top wage shares in Portugal, 1964 2000 11.9 The top 10 5%, top 5 1%, and top 1% earnings shares in Portugal,... 3.4 3A. 1 94 97 3A. 2 3A. 3 3B.1 Top estates composition in Japan, 1935, 1950, and 1987 Sensitivity analysis using the Japanese NSFIE data in 1999 Reference totals for population, income, inflation, and marginal tax rates, Japan, 1886 2005 Top income shares in Japan, 1886 2005 Top 1% income share and composition in Japan, 1886 2005 Levels of top estates in Japan, 1905 2005 128 133 137 147 3B.2 Estate composition... substantial gap remains to be explained The existence of a discrepancy between NSS and NAS statistics was already a subject of enquiry in India during the 1980s (see, e.g., Minhas 1988 and Minhas and Kansal 1990), but the gap observed during the 1990s appears to be substantially larger than during previous decades For a broader, international perspective on the survey vs national accounts debate, see Deaton... rise of top Indian incomes during the recent period was not due to the revival of top capital incomes (the rise of top wages did play a key role, like in the USA) Although our data do not allow us to identify precisely the causal channels at work, and in particular to isolate the impact of globalization, we note that the fact that the rise in income inequality was so much concentrated within top incomes. .. The top 1% income share in India, France, and the USA, 1913 2000 Source : Authors’ computations using tax returns data (India: Table 1A. 5, col (1); France: Piketty (2003); US: Piketty–Saez (2003)) Abhijit Banerjee and Thomas Piketty 13 pre-tax income inequality (even larger than in France or the USA) Available data do indeed seem to indicate that the fall in top shares observed during this period was . Tuomala 9. Top Incomes in Norway 448 R. Aaberge and A. B. Atkinson 10. Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain in a Historical and Fiscal Perspective 482 Facundo Alvaredo and Emmanuel Saez 11. Top. The top 1% income shares in Argentina, USA, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada 269 List of Figures and Tables ix 6.4 The top 0.1% income shares in Argentina, USA, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal,. offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered