IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/journl/hal-05461148.html

Rising top‐income persistence in Australia: Evidence from income tax data
[Precio de los alimentos y pobreza de ingreso en México: estimaciones regionales]

Author

Listed:
  • Nicolas Hérault

    (BSE - Bordeaux sciences économiques - UB - Université de Bordeaux - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, University of Melbourne)

  • Dean Hyslop

    (Motueka Research Centre)

  • Stephen Jenkins

    (University of London [London], IZA - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - Institute of Labor Economics)

  • Roger Wilkins

    (University of Melbourne, IZA - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - Institute of Labor Economics)

Abstract

Using income tax administrative data for Australia, we examine levels and trends in the persistence in top‐income group membership, focusing on the top 1 percent. Top‐income persistence increased markedly between 1991 and 2018, with most of the increase occurring in the mid‐2000s and early 2010s. In the mid‐ to late‐2010s, Australian top‐income persistence rates were near the top of the range of tax‐data estimates for other countries. We decompose the increase into factors associated with (i) changes in the composition of the top‐income group and (ii) increases in persistence rates for specific population subgroups. We find that the rise in top‐income persistence is accounted for by changes in subgroup persistence rates, notably for individuals aged 35–64, and especially those aged 55–64. We suggest that these effects are partially related to increases in the effective retirement age over the relevant period.

Suggested Citation

  • Nicolas Hérault & Dean Hyslop & Stephen Jenkins & Roger Wilkins, 2024. "Rising top‐income persistence in Australia: Evidence from income tax data [Precio de los alimentos y pobreza de ingreso en México: estimaciones regionales]," Post-Print hal-05461148, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05461148
    DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12628
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Other versions of this item:

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. is not listed on IDEAS
    2. Muthitacharoen, Athiphat & Burong, Trongwut, 2023. "Climbing the economic ladder: Earnings inequality and intragenerational mobility among Thai formal workers," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
    3. Del Carmen, Giselle & Garriga, Santiago & Ponce, Wilman & Scot, Thiago, 2025. "Two decades of top income shares in Honduras," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 246(C).

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • C81 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05461148. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.