Jobs and Income Growth of Top Earners and the Causes of Changing Income Inequality: Evidence from U.S. Tax Return Data
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income distribution; behavioral response to taxation;JEL classification:
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
- H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
- H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2010-11-13 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-MIG-2010-11-13 (Economics of Human Migration)
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