The long-run determinants of inequality: What can we learn from top income data?
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A striking feature of the evidence is that, in all countries which experience both a large top tax rate cut and a large increase in top income shares, the surge in top incomes tend to follow the top rate cuts, consistent with our elasticity interpretation.
“A striking feature of the evidence however is that, in all countries which experience both a large top tax rate cut and a large increase in top income shares, the surge in top incomes tend to follow the top rate cuts, consistent with our elasticity interpretation.39”
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“While Anglo-Saxon countries tend to have stock market based financial systems, most of continental Europe and the rest of the world have relatively bank based financial systems (see, e.g., Boot and Thakor, 1997, Allen and Gale, 2000, and Levine, 2005).”
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- Authors
- Roine, J., Vlachos, J., & Waldenström, D.
- Affiliations
- Stockholm School of Economics (SE)
- Stockholm University (SE)
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Roine, Jesper
- Venue
- Journal of Public Economics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-08
- Volume
- 93
- Issue
- 7-8
- Pages
- 974-988
- ISSN
- 0047-2727 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2085256602
- Cited by
- 438
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 47.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- papers.ssrn.com
- Locations
- Journal of Public Economics (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › General Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economic Theory and Policy
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Keywords
- income inequality, top income shares, upper middle class, economic growth, financial development, banking crisis, trade openness, government spending, progressive taxation, cross-country panel data
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