We study the recent evolution of top incomes in Switzerland, analyzing both social security data on labor incomes and tax data on total income. The results show that in the last 20 years, the share of top incomes has risen, and the top 0.01% share even doubled, putting Switzerland similar to European countries for the top 1% group but closer to the U.S. for higher top incomes. However, top inco...

BACKGROUND Census-based measures of income derived from median income of a geographic area are often used in health research. Many national census surveys gather information on both the respondent's individual income and the income for the entire household, giving researchers a choice of census income measures. We compared the extent to which individual respondent income and household income (b...

We use a controlled laboratory experiment to study the causal impact of income de-creases within time period on redistribution decisions at end that period, in an environment where we keep fixed sum incomes over period. First, investigate effect negative trend (intra-personal decrease), which means decreasing compared one’s recent past. Second, relative another person (inter-personal decrease)....

Most existing analyses of the incomes of the older population have overlooked the dynamics of later life or the process of ageing itself. Yet, income dynamics post-retirement is of growing policy importance as a result both of increasing longevity and, in the British case, a change in the sources of pensioner incomes. Our paper contributes to the growing and new literature on income mobility, f...