Top incomes and the gender divide

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作者：
Anthony B. Atkinson
Alessandra Casarico
Sarah Voitchovsky
机构：
[1] Nuffield College and Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School,
[2] Oxford,undefined
[3] and London School of Economics,undefined
[4] Università Bocconi,undefined
[5] Milan,undefined
[6] CESifo,undefined
[7] Munich,undefined
[8] and Dondena Research Centre on Social Dynamics and Public Policy,undefined
[9] Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research,undefined
[10] Carlton,undefined
[11] and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies,undefined
来源：
The Journal of Economic Inequality | 2018年 / 16卷
关键词：
Top income groups; Gender; Income composition;
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摘要：
In the recent research on top incomes, there has been little discussion of gender. A great deal is known about gender differentials in earnings, but how far does this carry over to total incomes? This paper investigates the gender divide at the top of the income distribution using tax record data for eight countries with individual taxation. It shows that women are strongly under-represented at the top of the distribution. Although the presence of women at the top has increased over time, the rise becomes smaller at the very top. The income gradient by gender has become more marked. The paper also shows that income composition differs by gender and exhibits significant changes over time, underlining the fact that it is not sufficient to look only at earned income.
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