How Closely Do Top Income Shares Track Other Measures of Inequality

By A. Leigh. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Inequality, credit and financial crises (2016, background): “However, the shortcoming of offering a partial view on the distribution is common to all measures of inequality and empirical evidence shows top income shares to be strongly correlated with broader inequality measures, such as the Gini coefficient (see, e.g., Leigh, 2007).”
A Note on the Relationship Between Top Income Shares and the Gini Coefficient (2010, unknown): “The relevance of the last expression has increased with the recent developments of the literature on top incomes (Atkinson and Piketty, 2007, 2010) and the comparison of inequality statistics from survey data and tax records (Burkhauser et al., forthcoming; Leigh, 2007).”
Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth (2014, unknown): “…indicate that had we accessed top income data for the 44 We also find strong “conditional correlations” using regression analysis where we account for time trends and country effects, similar to what is done by Leigh (2007) and by Morelli, Smeeding, and Thomson (2014) in Chapter 9 of this Handbook.”
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.”
FDI and Income Inequality: Evidence from a Panel of U.S. States (2012, unknown): “10 Compiling a standardized top income shares dataset for 13 developed countries, Leigh (2007) finds that there is a strong and significant relationship between top income shares and broader inequality measures such as the Gini coefficient.”
Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries (2013, background): “Of course, this topic is related to the long-lasting debate initiated with the seminal contributions by Lewis (1954) and Kuznets (1955), who argued that the process of industrialization would imply an inverse U pattern for inequality.”