The Long‐Run History of Income Inequality in Denmark
利用历史出版物和纳税申报微观数据，构建了丹麦过去140年收入不平等的国际可比估计，发现收入不平等和最高收入份额在几个稳定期之间下降，且最高收入份额能很好地反映不平等的基本趋势。
Abstract We use historical publications and micro data from tax returns to construct internationally comparable estimates of the development in income inequality in Denmark over the last 140 years. The study shows that income inequality and top income shares have declined during several distinct phases in between periods of stability. Furthermore, the quality of the Danish data allows us to analyse not only the development in top income shares but also broader inequality measures such as the Gini coefficient. These analyses show that top income shares are a good proxy for the underlying development in inequality.