• Medientyp: Bericht; E-Book
  • Titel: Importing Inequality: Immigration and the Top 1 Percent
  • Beteiligte: Advani, Arun [Verfasser:in]; Koenig, Felix [Verfasser:in]; Pessina, Lorenzo [Verfasser:in]; Summers, Andy [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: Munich: Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo), 2020
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Schlagwörter: J30 ; J60 ; H20
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  • Beschreibung: In this paper we study the contribution of migrants to the rise in UK top incomes. Using administrative data on the universe of UK taxpayers we show migrants are over-represented at the top of the income distribution, with migrants twice as prevalent in the top 0.1% as anywhere in the bottom 97%. These high incomes are predominantly from labour, rather than capital, and migrants are concentrated in only a handful of industries, predominantly finance. Almost all (85%) of the growth in the UK top 1% income share over the past 20 years can be attributed to migration.
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