The long run history of income inequality in Denmark

Tony B. Atkinson; Jakob Egholt Søgaard

doi:10.1111/sjoe.12143

The long run history of income inequality in Denmark

Tony B. Atkinson, Jakob Egholt Søgaard

Department of Economics

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Abstract

We use historical publications and micro data from tax returns to construct internationally comparable estimates of the development in income inequality in Denmark over the last 140 years. The study shows that income inequality and top income shares have declined during several distinct phases in between periods of stability. Furthermore, the quality of the Danish data allows us to analyse not only the development in top income shares but also broader inequality measures such as the Gini coefficient. These analyses show that top income shares are a good proxy for the underlying development in inequality.

Translated title of the contribution	Den historiske udviklingen i indkomstuligheden i Danmark
Original language	English
Journal	Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Volume	118
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	264–291
ISSN	0347-0520
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12143
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2016

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D31
H2
J3
N3

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