The Evolution of Top Incomes: A Historical and International Perspective

By Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth (2014, neutral): “9 views and surveys of the top incomes literature (Piketty, 2005; Piketty and Saez, 2006; Atkinson and Piketty, 2007, 2010; Leigh, 2009; Atkinson, Piketty and Saez, 2010, 2011), overviews of the changing earnings distribution (Atkinson 2008a) and in overviews on wealth concentration trends (Wolff, 1”
Wall Street and Main Street: What Contributes to the Rise in the Highest Incomes? (2010, positive): “…that realized CEO pay is highly related to firm industry-adjusted stock performance Our evidence also is hard to reconcile with the arguments in Piketty and Saez (2006a) and Levy and Temin (2007) that the increase in pay at the top is driven by the recent removal of social norms regarding pay…”
The effects of economic growth on income inequality in the US (2015, positive): “We analyze the wealth and pay-for-performance hypotheses using post-war era (1953–2008) data, 5 using the recently constructed database of Piketty and Saez (2003, 2006 ), which consists of annual series of US families' tax filings.”
The Firm Size Distribution Across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology (2018, positive): “Although not targeted in the calibration, it also generates a trend in income concentration at the top very similar to that documented by Piketty and Saez (2006).”
Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data (2009, neutral): “So it is not possible to directly derive measures of income inequality that directly take account of the income of poorer groups (Piketty and Saez 2006a).”
It's the Market: The Broad-Based Rise in the Return to Top Talent (2013, neutral): “The normal coding for the generation is an integer.”
The Cycle of Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Spanish Social Security Data (2017, neutral): “The percentage of previous earnings imputed depends on the number of months in unemployment as follows: 70% (1-6 months), 60% (6-24), 50% (25-48), 40% (49-72), 30% (73-96), 20% (97-120), and 10% (>120).”