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In Volume I, we assembled studies of top incomes covering ten OECD countries and focused on the contrast between continental Europe (France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland) and English-speaking countries (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA). The present volume goes beyond this in several respects. Within Europe, the chapters in this volume cover both Nordic countries (Finland, Norway, and Sweden) and southern Europe (Italy, Portugal, and Spain). The Nordic countries have traditionally pursued more egalitarian policies and have typically lower levels of overall inequality. In contrast, overall inequality usually seems to rise as one moves further south in Europe. The chapters assembled here allow the reader to see whether the same geographical pattern is found at the top of the income distribution. Moreover, we can examine whether top income shares have risen in these countries in recent decades, as in the USA, or whether they have exhibited the relative stability found in a number of continental European countries. A second important objective of the present volume is to widen the geographical coverage to include Asia (China, India, Indonesia, J

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Author

Thomas Piketty and A. B. Atkinson (eds.)

Published

2023

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Business, Project Management