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Australian top income shares extended from 1912 to 1920
The series of top shares of fiscal income for Australia have been extended in the database to cover years from 1912 to 1920. This is
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Update of top income share series for Australia
Australian top fiscal income share series have just been updated to 2016 by Roger Wilkins. The top 1% income share reached 9% in 2016 (Click
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New paper on wealth-income ratios in India, 1860-2012
This new paper by Rishabh Kumar studies the metamorphoses of aggregate Indian wealth over fifteen politically transformative decades. Based on a comprehensive new database, the
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Nouvelle étude sur l’évolution des inégalités en Europe, 1980-2017
Dans cette nouvelle étude et dans la synthèse qui l’accompagne (disponible en anglais, allemand, français et espagnol), Thomas Blanchet, Lucas Chancel and Amory Gethin estiment
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New paper on the long-run evolution of political cleavages in India
This new paper by Abhijit Banerjee, Amory Gethin and Thomas Piketty combines surveys, election results and social spending data to document a long-run evolution of political
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This new paper by André Decoster, Koen Dedobbeleer and Sebastiaan Maes documents the evolution of top income inequality in Belgium using tax tabulations and national accounts data. Their results
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New paper on support for inheritance taxation
This new paper by Spencer Bastani and Daniel Waldenström studies how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of inherited wealth in society.
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New paper on simplified distributional national accounts (WID.world Working Paper 2019/01)
This new paper by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman proposes a simplified methodology to estimate income inequality by combining surveys, tax data and
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New paper and Stata command on correcting survey data using tax data (WID.world Working Paper 2018/12)
This new paper by Thomas Blanchet, Ignacio Flores and Marc Morgan introduces a new method to adjust household surveys using tax data.
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