The Evolution of High Incomes in Northern America: Lessons from Canadian Evidence

Saez, Emmanuel; Veall, Michael R.

doi:10.1257/0002828054201404

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“…The scarce research on affluence has concentrated nearly without exception on proportions of rich individuals within a given population (headcount ratio) or the income share of the top p% of the income distribution (see e.g. Atkinson, 2005;Dell, 2005;Piketty, 2005;Saez, 2005;Saez and Veall, 2005;Piketty and Saez, 2006;Atkinson and Piketty, 2007;Roine and Waldenström, 2008). However, neither the headcount nor income shares are satisfying measures for either poverty or richness.…”

Section: One-dimensional Richnessmentioning

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Multidimensional Measurement of Richness: Theory and an Application to Germany

Peichl

Pestel

2010

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. This series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science. Terms of use: Documents inThe decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly. Nico Pestel IZA and University of Cologne AbstractClosely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting.We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional well-being in Germany. Our analysis shows that more than half of the German population is affluent in at least one dimension and less than

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Section: One-dimensional Richnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multidimensional Measurement of Richness: Theory and an Application to Germany

Peichl

Pestel

2010

SSRN Journal

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“…Series of top incomes have been produced for various developed countries, including Australia , Canada (Saez and Veall, 2005), Finland (Riihelä, Sullström and Tuomala, 2005), France (Piketty, 2003), Germany (Dell, 2007), Ireland (Nolan, 2007), Japan (Moriguchi and Saez, 2008), Holland (Atkinson and Salverda, 2005), New Zealand (Atkinson and Leigh, 2005), Spain (Alvaredo and Switzerland (Dell 2005, Dell, Piketty and, United Kingdom (Atkinson, 2002 and U.S. (Piketty and Saez, 2003). Piketty (2004) and Legih (2009) emphasize that international comparisons find a significant decrease in top income share during the first half of the twentieth century in all countries except Switzerland, with a later increase of this shares in the second part of the century mainly in Anglo-Saxon countries but not in Japan and continental Europe.…”

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“…Additionally, Saez and Veall (2005) studied the evolution of high-income families and individuals, concluding that the historical evolution of both series follow the same pattern. This indicates that in spite of increasing incorporation of women into the labor market, this does not improve or deteriorate the concentration of incomes, probably due to the correlation between the earnings of spouses.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This includes Piketty (2003), Piketty and Saez (2006), Atkinson (2002), Saez and Veall (2005), Leigh (2005, 2007), Atkinson and Piketty (2007), Atkinson and Salverda (2005), Banerjee and Piketty (2005) among others. On the other hand, Saez and Veall (2005) and Kopczuk, Saez and Song (2007) have also studied the welfare consequences of income mobility at the top of the income distribution and the effect of the increase in female labor participation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Top Incomes in Chile using 50 years of household surveys: 1957-2007

Sanhueza

Mayer

2011

Estudios de Economía

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“…1 Wage and salary income play a very important role in shaping top-income inequality patterns. First, wage and salary income has been the largest component of top incomes in the United States and Canada in recent decades (see Saez, 2003, andVeall, 2005). Second, income inequality patterns resemble earnings inequality patterns over time.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%