The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Income
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...See Jenkins et al. (2013) for an overview of the recent financial crises pointing to varying effects on inequality across countries. 129 Note, however, that statutory taxes and actual taxes paid by top income earners are not the same. In particular, during the 1950s and 1960s available evidence suggests that top rates were only paid well above the P99 level (see Roine, Vlachos, and Waldenström, 2009, and references therein). Scheve and Stasavage (2010, 2012) argue that the increased wartime taxation of the rich can be related to a political process of equal sacrifices, where the wars forced the masses to put up with their and in return the rich were forced to put up with their wealth. 130 Roine, Vlachos, Waldenström (2009) also show that the cummulative effects of the relatively small short run impact of taxes found in their econometric analysis are consistent with much larger effects over time....
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