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

Reto Foellmi and Isabel Martínez

No 1612, Economics Working Paper Series from University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science

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 the top income earners in Switzerland.

Keywords: Income Inequality; Synthetic Control Method; Pareto Interpolation; Labor Income; Wealth Inequality; Tax Data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 D31 H24 N33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57 pages
Date: 2016-07
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