Top incomes in the UK over the 20th century

By Anthony B. Atkinson. 2005

148 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Daniel Waldenström
2. Thomas Piketty
3. Bertrand Garbinti
4. Jonathan Goupille-Lebret
5. Jesper Roine
6. Facundo Alvaredo
7. Stephen P. Jenkins
8. Richard V. Burkhauser

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Daniel Waldenström
2. Jesper Roine
3. Facundo Alvaredo
4. Shuaizhang Feng
5. Richard V. Burkhauser
6. Jeff Larrimore
7. Stephen P. Jenkins
8. Thomas Piketty

Citations in the corpus

• On the Long-Run Evolution of Inheritance: France 1820–2050 (2011, background): “First, this work represents in our view the logical continuation of the recent literature on the long run evolution of top income and top wealth shares initiated by Piketty (2001, 2003), Atkinson (2005) and Piketty and Saez (2003).”
• Income inequality in France, 1900–2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts (DINA) (2018, methodology): “; Atkinson (2005) for the UK and Atkinson and Piketty (2007, 2010) for a global perspective on top incomes). This interest has led to the creation in 2011 of The World Top Incomes Database (WTID), a database that gathers homogenous long-term series of top income shares broken down by income source f”
• The Distribution of Top Incomes in Australia (2007, unknown): “Or has Australia followed the same pattern as in other OECD countries, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, where income inequality declined over the first three-quarters of the century, and then increased in the final decades?”
• Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data (2009, background): “See Piketty (2003) for France, Atkinson (2005) for the UK, Saez and Vaell (2005) for Canada, Bach, Corneo and Steiner (2009) for Germany, Dell (2005) for Germany and Switzerland, and Atkinson and Leigh (2007) for Australia.”
• Pareto Models, Top Incomes, and Recent Trends in UK Income Inequality (2017, unknown): “Atkinson (2005) uses these data, as well as published tabulations from the SPI and from supertax and surtax returns for earlier years, in his pioneering analysis of trends in UK top income shares since 1908.”
• Top wealth shares in the UK over more than a century (2018, background): “The derivation of the population series is described in Atkinson (2005).”
• The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 1903-2004 (2006, background): “See Atkinson (2005b) for details. involved in warfare, but by less than 5% in Sweden.”
• How Closely Do Top Income Shares Track Other Measures of Inequality (2007, unknown): “…and Saez, 2006), the Netherlands (Salverda and Atkinson 2007), New Zealand (Atkinson and Leigh, 2005), Spain (Alvaredo and Saez, 2006), Sweden (Roine and Waldenstro¨m, 2006), Switzerland (Dell, 2005; Dell et al. , 2007), the UK (Atkinson, 2005, 2007 b ) and the US (Piketty and Saez, 2001, 2003).”