Top Incomes in the Long Run of History - eScholarship

By Anthony B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez. 2012

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Digital technologies, innovation, and skills: emerging trajectories and challenges (2021, background): “…compensation (Karabarbounis and Neiman, 2013) and unionization (Freeman, 2007) have declined, but the compensation of top earners has dramatically increased (Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez, 2011), as has firm size (Mueller, Ouimet, and Simintzi, 2017) and industrial concentration (Autor et al., 2020).”
The determinants of income inequality in OECD countries (2018, background): “Many economists in the recent years showed, empirically, a strong correlation between inequality and tax reduction, in particular for top income earners (Piketty, 2014; Atkinson et al., 2011; Facundo et al., 2013).”
The Rise of the Super-Rich (2012, background): “Second, much of the rise in general inequality in the United States appears to be driven by changes at the very top (Atkinson et al. 2011).”
A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies* (2019, unknown): “(2016) Hendren (2017a) Top Tax Rate Increase in Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 1993 Top Tax 1993 1993 49 x x x Atkinson et al. (2011) Carroll (1998) Top Tax Rate Reductions in Tax Reform Act of 1986 Top Tax 1986 1986 49 x x x Atkinson et al.”
Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world (2017, background): “The WID.world project started with the construction of historical top income share series for France, the US, and the UK, and then extended to a growing number of countries (Piketty 2001, 2003; Piketty and Saez 2003; Atkinson and Piketty 2007, 2010; Atkinson et al. 2011; Alvaredo et al. 2013).”
The Dynamics of Inequality (2016, unknown): “The past forty years have seen a rapid rise in top income inequality in the United States (Piketty and Saez, 2003; Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez, 2011).”
The Missing Wealth of Nations: Are Europe and the U.S. net Debtors or net Creditors? (2013, background): “So far, tax havens have been ignored by the literature that studies the evolution of top income shares around the world (Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez 2011).3 My findings, therefore, also have implications for this strand of research: my macro-based estimate of the funds held through tax havens could…”
Government ideology and economic policy-making in the United States—a survey (2017, unknown): “Figure 1 shows the top 1% pre-tax income share as measured by the World Top Income Database over the 1970–2014 period (Atkinson et al. 2011; Saez and Zucman 2016): the top 1% pre-tax 4 Other studies—which I do not discuss in more detail—elaborate on partisan politics and political alignment between…”