Volatile Top Income Shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the Evolution Between 1981 and 2010

Journal
The review of economics and statistics
ISSN
0034-6535
ISSN-Digital
1530-9142
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2016
Author(s)
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DOI
Abstract
In the last 20 years, the share of top incomes in Switzerland has risen, while exhibiting large variations. Switzerland is similar to European countries for the top 1% but closer to the U.S. for higher top income groups. With the synthetic control method we close a time gap in the tax data, exploiting the fact that Swiss cantons changed their tax system at different points in time. Using social security data which cover all top labor incomes, we document the growing importance of labor compared to capital incomes among top income earners in Switzerland.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SEPS - Economic Policy
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
MIT Press
Publisher place
Cambridge, Mass.
Volume
99
Number
5
Start page
793
End page
809
Official URL
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Subject(s)

economics

Division(s)

SIAW - Swiss Institut...

SEPS - School of Econ...

Eprints ID
248837
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