The world top incomes database

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

234 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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1. Ufuk Akcigit
2. Thomas Piketty
3. Emmanuel Saez
4. Facundo Alvaredo
5. G. Zucman
6. Philippe Aghion
7. Richard Blundell
8. L. Chancel

Citations in the corpus

• Inequality, the Great Recession, and Slow Recovery (2014, unknown): “We use figures for pre-tax income including realized capital gains from “The World Top Incomes Database” based on the methods in Piketty and Saez (2007).”
• Global Income Distribution: From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Great Recession (2013, unknown): “In the World Top Incomes Database (Alvaredo et al. 2013), the top 10% share ranges from 14% (Mauritius in 2005) to 46% (United States in 2010), with an average of 32% (approximately France in 1990s).”
• Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities (2011, unknown): “— To analyze international evidence, we use data on the income shares of the top 1 percent from 18 OECD countries, gathered in the World Top Incomes Database (Alvaredo et al. 2011) combined with top income tax rate data since 1960.”
• Innovation and Top Income Inequality (2018, background): “(2)Bakija et al. (2008) find that the income share of the top 1% in the US has increased by 11.”
• IS LABOR'S LOSS CAPITAL'S GAIN? GROSS VERSUS NET LABOR SHARES (2017, methodology): “The first column of Table 2 regresses US corporate sector gross labor shares on inequality, as measured by the inverted Pareto–Lorenz coefficient from the World Top Incomes Database [Alvaredo et al. (2014)].”
• Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world (2017, background): “The World Top Incomes Database-WTID (Alvaredo et al. 2011-2015) was created in January 2011 with the aim of providing convenient and free access to all the existing series.”
• Optimal Labor Income Taxation (2012, methodology): “Panel A depicts the change in pre-tax top income shares against the change in pre-tax top income tax rate from 1960–1964 to 2005–2009 based on data for 18 OECD countries (exact years depend on availability of top income share data in the World Top Incomes Database (Alvaredo et al., 2011).”
• Finance-dominated capitalism and re-distribution of income: a Kaleckian perspective. (2015, unknown): “In the dataset by Alvaredo et al. (2012) this is even more visible for the top 5 and the top 10 percent including net capital gains.”