Anthony B Atkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony B Atkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony B |
| FAMILY NAME | Atkinson |
| SIGNATURE | ATKINSON A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 411 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Self-Supervised Learning Improves Accuracy and Data Efficiency for IMU-Based Ground Reaction Force Estimation
Capital and Labor: The Factor Income Composition of Top Incomes in the United States, 1962–2006
This paper finds that capital and labor incomes in the United States have become more closely associated since the 1980s. This has contributed to the well-known increase in the top 1% share of total income, exacerbating rising inequality in capital incomes and earnings. We show that the trend in the association is U-shaped as the recent increase contrasts with a tendency toward a weakening association until the 1980s. The paper, using data derive…
Top wealth shares in the UK over more than a century
The Challenge of Measuring UK Wealth Inequality in the 2000s
The concentration of personal wealth is now receiving a great deal of attention - after having been neglected for many years. One reason is the growing recognition that, in seeking explanations for rising income inequality, we need to look not only at wages and earned income but also at income from capital, particularly at the top of the distribution. In this paper, we use evidence from existing data sources to attempt to answer three questions: …
Wealth and inheritance in Britain from 1896 to the present
Personal wealth has grown since the 1970s twice as fast in real terms as national income. Has this rise in the wealth-income ratio led to a corresponding increase in the wealth being passed on from one generation to the next? Are we returning to the levels of inheritance found in the 19th century? The aim of this paper is to construct UK evidence on the extent of the transmission of wealth in the form of estates and gifts inter vivos. It takes a …
Top incomes and the gender divide
From classes to copulas: Wages, capital, and top incomes
Reducing poverty and inequality through tax-benefit reform and the minimum wage: The UK as a case-study
Atkinson’s book Inequality: What Can Be Done? (Harvard University Press, 2015) sets out a range of concrete proposals aimed at reducing income inequality, which cover a very broad span but include major changes to the income tax and social transfers system and the minimum wage. These are framed with specific reference to the UK but have much broader relevance in demonstrating how substantial the impact on inequality of such measures could be. Thi…
Charitable Bequests and Wealth at Death
Charitable bequests are a major source of income for charities but surprisingly little is known about them. We propose a multi‐stage framework for analysing the bequest decision and examine the evidence for Britain provided by new data on estates. The novelty of the framework is that it distinguishes between five different steps that lead to a charitable bequest. Our new data for Britain have the advantages of covering the whole population of non…
Inequality: What Сan be Done? (an excerpt)
Nationalstaat und Europäische Union: Eine Bestandsaufnahme
Lectures on Public Economics: Updated Edition
Inequality: What Can Be Done
Inequality and poverty have returned with a vengeance in recent decades. To reduce them, we need fresh ideas that move beyond taxes on the wealthy. Anthony B. Atkinson offers ambitious new policies in technology, employment, social security, sharing of capital, and taxation, and he defends them against the common arguments and excuses for inaction
Inequality and crises revisited
Unveiling the Ethics behind Inequality Measurement: Dalton's Contribution to Economics
This article assesses the importance of Dalton's 1920 paper in the Economic Journal for subsequent developments in income distribution analysis. Dalton, H. (1920). 'The measurement of the inequality of incomes', Economic Journal, vol. 30(119), pp. 348–61
The colonial legacy: Income inequality in former British African colonies
This paper examines the distribution of top incomes in 15 former British colonies in Africa, drawing on evidence available from income tax records. It seeks to throw light on the position of colonial elites during the period of British rule. Just how unequal were incomes? How did the position of the rich in the colonies compare with that of the rich in the United Kingdom? It investigates how income concentration evolved in the last years of colon…
The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective
The top 1 percent income share has more than doubled in the United States over the last thirty years, drawing much public attention in recent years. While other English speaking countries have also experienced sharp increases in the top 1 percent income share, many high income countries such as Japan, France, or Germany have seen much less increase in top income shares. Hence, the explanation cannot rely solely on forces common to advanced countr…
The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective
The top 1 percent income share has more than doubled in the United States over the last 30 years, drawing much public attention in recent years. While other Englishspeaking countries have also experienced sharp increases in the top 1 percent income share, many high-income countries such as Japan, France, or Germany have seen much less increase in top income shares. Hence, the explanation cannot rely solely on forces common to advanced countries, …
The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective
The top 1 percent income share has more than doubled in the United States over the last 30 years, drawing much public attention in recent years. While other English-speaking countries have also experienced sharp increases in the top 1 percent income share, many high-income countries such as Japan, France, or Germany have seen much less increase in top income shares. Hence, the explanation cannot rely solely on forces common to advanced countries,…
Charitable Giving for Overseas Development: UK Trends over a Quarter Century
Charitable giving is an important source of funding for overseas development and emergency relief. Donations in the UK are about a quarter of the size of government development aid. There has been strong growth over time, reflecting the activities of development charities and the public response to humanitarian emergencies. The paper examines how this charitable giving has changed since 1978, using a newly constructed panel data set on donations …
Top Incomes in the Long Run of History
A recent literature has constructed top income shares time series over the long run for more than twenty countries using income tax statistics. Top incomes represent a small share of the population but a very significant share of total income and total taxes paid. Hence, aggregate economic growth per capita and Gini inequality indexes are sensitive to excluding or including top incomes. We discuss the estimation methods and issues that arise when…
On Analyzing the World Distribution of Income
Consideration of world inequality should cause reexamination of the key concepts underlying the welfare approach to measuring income inequality and its relation to measuring poverty. This reexamination leads to exploration of a new measure that allows poverty and inequality to be considered in the same framework, incorporates different approaches to measuring inequality, and allows varied expressions of the cost of inequality. Applied to the worl…
On lateral thinking
The changing distribution of earnings in Ireland, 1937 to 1968
Data from the Irish Census of Industrial Production are used to illuminate changes in the distribution of earnings from 1937 to 1968, an important period in Irish economic history, relevant to debates about globalization and inequality. Between the late 1930s and mid-1950s there was a greater compression of earnings than in the US's 'great compression' of the same period. Sectoral data suggest that this occurred quite generally. The degree of int…
Top Incomes in the Long Run of History
This paper summarizes the main findings of a recent literature that has constructed top income shares time series over the long-run for more than 20 countries using income tax statistics. Top incomes represent a small share of the population but a very significant share of total income and total taxes paid. Hence, aggregate economic growth per capita and Gini inequality indexes are very sensitive to excluding or including top incomes. We discuss …
Lectures on Public Economics: Updated Edition
Inequality: What Can Be Done
Inequality and poverty have returned with a vengeance in recent decades. To reduce them, we need fresh ideas that move beyond taxes on the wealthy. Anthony B. Atkinson offers ambitious new policies in technology, employment, social security, sharing of capital, and taxation, and he defends them against the common arguments and excuses for inaction
The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective
The top 1 percent income share has more than doubled in the United States over the last 30 years, drawing much public attention in recent years. While other English-speaking countries have also experienced sharp increases in the top 1 percent income share, many high-income countries such as Japan, France, or Germany have seen much less increase in top income shares. Hence, the explanation cannot rely solely on forces common to advanced countries,…
A New View of Technological Change
Journal Article A New View of Technological Change Get access Anthony B. Atkinson, Anthony B. Atkinson St. John's College, Cambridge. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joseph E. Stiglitz Joseph E. Stiglitz Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 79, Issue 315, 1 September 1969, Pages 57…
The Economic Consequences of Rolling Back the Welfare State
The Economic Consequences of Rolling Back the Welfare State Get access The Economic Consequences of Rolling Back the Welfare State. By A. B. Atkinson, (). (Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1999. Pp. xii–216. £15.50 hardback. ISBN 0 262 01171 9.) The Economic Journal, Volume 110, Issue 467, 1 November 2000, Pages 739–823, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.t01-2-00582 Published: 28 June 2008
Indicators and Targets for Social Inclusion in the European Union
In December 2001, the Laeken European Council adopted a set of commonly agreed and defined indicators for social inclusion. These should play a central role in monitoring the performance of Member States in making progress towards the key EU objectives in this area set by the Nice European Council in 2000, and represent a major step forward in the development of EU social policy. This article reviews the scientific and political basis on which th…
From classes to copulas: Wages, capital, and top incomes
Unveiling the Ethics behind Inequality Measurement: Dalton's Contribution to Economics
This article assesses the importance of Dalton's 1920 paper in the Economic Journal for subsequent developments in income distribution analysis. Dalton, H. (1920). 'The measurement of the inequality of incomes', Economic Journal, vol. 30(119), pp. 348–61
Top incomes and the gender divide
Reducing poverty and inequality through tax-benefit reform and the minimum wage: The UK as a case-study
Atkinson’s book Inequality: What Can Be Done? (Harvard University Press, 2015) sets out a range of concrete proposals aimed at reducing income inequality, which cover a very broad span but include major changes to the income tax and social transfers system and the minimum wage. These are framed with specific reference to the UK but have much broader relevance in demonstrating how substantial the impact on inequality of such measures could be. Thi…
Charitable Bequests and Wealth at Death
Charitable bequests are a major source of income for charities but surprisingly little is known about them. We propose a multi‐stage framework for analysing the bequest decision and examine the evidence for Britain provided by new data on estates. The novelty of the framework is that it distinguishes between five different steps that lead to a charitable bequest. Our new data for Britain have the advantages of covering the whole population of non…
Alternatives to Capitalism: The Economics of Partnership
Journal Article Alternatives to Capitalism: The Economics of Partnership. Get access Alternatives to Capitalism: The Economics of Partnership. Edited by ATKINSON (ANTHONY B.). (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. xix + 290. £47.50 hardback. ISBN 0 333 57311 0.) Donald A. R. George Donald A. R. George University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 104, Issue 42…
Wealth and inheritance in Britain from 1896 to the present
Personal wealth has grown since the 1970s twice as fast in real terms as national income. Has this rise in the wealth-income ratio led to a corresponding increase in the wealth being passed on from one generation to the next? Are we returning to the levels of inheritance found in the 19th century? The aim of this paper is to construct UK evidence on the extent of the transmission of wealth in the form of estates and gifts inter vivos. It takes a …
On lateral thinking
The changing distribution of earnings in Ireland, 1937 to 1968
Data from the Irish Census of Industrial Production are used to illuminate changes in the distribution of earnings from 1937 to 1968, an important period in Irish economic history, relevant to debates about globalization and inequality. Between the late 1930s and mid-1950s there was a greater compression of earnings than in the US's 'great compression' of the same period. Sectoral data suggest that this occurred quite generally. The degree of int…
Inequality and crises revisited
A New View of Technological Change
Journal Article A New View of Technological Change Get access Anthony B. Atkinson, Anthony B. Atkinson St. John's College, Cambridge. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joseph E. Stiglitz Joseph E. Stiglitz Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 79, Issue 315, 1 September 1969, Pages 57…
On the measurement of inequality
Lectures in public economics
L'après-communisme: Une troisième voie
Age, Work and Social Security
Alternatives to Capitalism: The Economics of Partnership
Journal Article Alternatives to Capitalism: The Economics of Partnership. Get access Alternatives to Capitalism: The Economics of Partnership. Edited by ATKINSON (ANTHONY B.). (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. xix + 290. £47.50 hardback. ISBN 0 333 57311 0.) Donald A. R. George Donald A. R. George University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 104, Issue 42…
Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe
The Welfare State is a key policy issue of the 1990s. The essays in this book depart from much of the recent economic debate in emphasising the positive contributions of the Welfare State, and in assessing its efficiency in relation to the objectives which it is intended to achieve. These objectives are not just the alleviation of poverty but more broadly the provision of security and the redistribution of income. Part A of the book sets the curr…
The Economic Consequences of Rolling Back the Welfare State
The Economic Consequences of Rolling Back the Welfare State Get access The Economic Consequences of Rolling Back the Welfare State. By A. B. Atkinson, (). (Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1999. Pp. xii–216. £15.50 hardback. ISBN 0 262 01171 9.) The Economic Journal, Volume 110, Issue 467, 1 November 2000, Pages 739–823, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.t01-2-00582 Published: 28 June 2008
Promise and Pitfalls in the Use of “Secondary” Data-Sets: Income Inequality in OECD Countries as a Case Study
This paper examines the role of secondary data-sets in empirical economic research, taking the field of income distribution as a case study. We illustrate problems faced by users of “secondary” statistics, showing how both cross-country comparisons and time-series analysis can depend sensitively on the choice of data. After describing the genealogy of secondary data-sets on income inequality, we consider the main methodological issues and discuss…
Developing Comparable Indicators for Monitoring Social Inclusion in the European Union
Indicators and Targets for Social Inclusion in the European Union
In December 2001, the Laeken European Council adopted a set of commonly agreed and defined indicators for social inclusion. These should play a central role in monitoring the performance of Member States in making progress towards the key EU objectives in this area set by the Nice European Council in 2000, and represent a major step forward in the development of EU social policy. This article reviews the scientific and political basis on which th…
Chapter Fourteen. The Panel-of-Countries Approach to Explaining Income Inequality: An Interdisciplinary Research Agenda
Repenser la solidarité
La répartition des salaires dans les pays de l'Ocde
Il est généralement admis que les inégalités salariales se sont fortement accentuées dans les pays de l'OCDE depuis 1980. L'explication habituelle est la hausse constante de la demande de travail qualifié, due au progrès technique favorisant les qualifications, et l'exposition de la main‐d'æuvre non qualifiée à la concurrence internationale du fait de la mondialisation. Mais l'évolution de la répartition des salaires diffère d'un pays à l'autre e…
Commemorating Richard Musgrave (1910-2007)
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Top Incomes in the Long Run of History
This paper summarizes the main findings of a recent literature that has constructed top income shares time series over the long-run for more than 20 countries using income tax statistics. Top incomes represent a small share of the population but a very significant share of total income and total taxes paid. Hence, aggregate economic growth per capita and Gini inequality indexes are very sensitive to excluding or including top incomes. We discuss …
On Analyzing the World Distribution of Income
Consideration of world inequality should cause reexamination of the key concepts underlying the welfare approach to measuring income inequality and its relation to measuring poverty. This reexamination leads to exploration of a new measure that allows poverty and inequality to be considered in the same framework, incorporates different approaches to measuring inequality, and allows varied expressions of the cost of inequality. Applied to the worl…
On lateral thinking
The changing distribution of earnings in Ireland, 1937 to 1968
Data from the Irish Census of Industrial Production are used to illuminate changes in the distribution of earnings from 1937 to 1968, an important period in Irish economic history, relevant to debates about globalization and inequality. Between the late 1930s and mid-1950s there was a greater compression of earnings than in the US's 'great compression' of the same period. Sectoral data suggest that this occurred quite generally. The degree of int…
Top Incomes in the Long Run of History
A recent literature has constructed top income shares time series over the long run for more than twenty countries using income tax statistics. Top incomes represent a small share of the population but a very significant share of total income and total taxes paid. Hence, aggregate economic growth per capita and Gini inequality indexes are sensitive to excluding or including top incomes. We discuss the estimation methods and issues that arise when…
Charitable Giving for Overseas Development: UK Trends over a Quarter Century
Charitable giving is an important source of funding for overseas development and emergency relief. Donations in the UK are about a quarter of the size of government development aid. There has been strong growth over time, reflecting the activities of development charities and the public response to humanitarian emergencies. The paper examines how this charitable giving has changed since 1978, using a newly constructed panel data set on donations …
The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective
The top 1 percent income share has more than doubled in the United States over the last thirty years, drawing much public attention in recent years. While other English speaking countries have also experienced sharp increases in the top 1 percent income share, many high income countries such as Japan, France, or Germany have seen much less increase in top income shares. Hence, the explanation cannot rely solely on forces common to advanced countr…
The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective
The top 1 percent income share has more than doubled in the United States over the last 30 years, drawing much public attention in recent years. While other Englishspeaking countries have also experienced sharp increases in the top 1 percent income share, many high-income countries such as Japan, France, or Germany have seen much less increase in top income shares. Hence, the explanation cannot rely solely on forces common to advanced countries, …
The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective
The top 1 percent income share has more than doubled in the United States over the last 30 years, drawing much public attention in recent years. While other English-speaking countries have also experienced sharp increases in the top 1 percent income share, many high-income countries such as Japan, France, or Germany have seen much less increase in top income shares. Hence, the explanation cannot rely solely on forces common to advanced countries,…
The colonial legacy: Income inequality in former British African colonies
This paper examines the distribution of top incomes in 15 former British colonies in Africa, drawing on evidence available from income tax records. It seeks to throw light on the position of colonial elites during the period of British rule. Just how unequal were incomes? How did the position of the rich in the colonies compare with that of the rich in the United Kingdom? It investigates how income concentration evolved in the last years of colon…
Economics (28 works) · Inequality (21 works) · Political science (17 works) · Income distribution (13 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (13 works) · Demographic economics (12 works) · Economic inequality (11 works) · Labour economics (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works)