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Pareto and the upper tail of the income distribution in the UK: 1799 to the present

Anthony B. Atkinson

The Pareto distribution has long been a source of fascination to economists, and the Pareto coefficient is widely used, in theoretical and empirical studies, as a summary of the degree of concentration of top incomes. Th...Read more...

17 October 2016

Public Economics Programme Discussion Paper

Pareto models, top incomes, and recent trends in UK income inequality

Stephen P Jenkins

I determine UK income inequality levels and trends by combining inequality estimates from tax return data (for the ‘rich’) and household survey data (for the ‘non-rich’), taking advantage of the better coverage of top i...Read more...

18 August 2016

DARP Paper

Inheritance and the Distribution of Wealth

Frank A Cowell

The theory of functional equations is used to clarify the relationship between equilibrium distributions of wealth and population parameters such as the distribution of families by size, marriage patterns, tax mechanisms...Read more...

May 1998

DARP Paper

Income Distribution in Brazil 1981-1990: Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches

Frank A Cowell, Francisco H.G. Ferreira and Julie Litchfield

Using a newly available comprehensive micro-data set we examine changes in the shape of the Brazilian income distribution during the 'lost decade' of the 1980s. We adopt alternative parametric and non-parametric approach...Read more...

March 1996