Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/99998 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ifo Working Paper No. 181
Publisher: 
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Munich
Abstract: 
I investigate how government ideology and globalization are associated with top income shares in 16 OECD countries over the period 1970 to 2010. I use the new World Top Incomes Database. Globalization is measured by the KOF index of globalization. The results show that the top 1% income share increased more under rightwing governments than under leftwing governments. The effect was stronger when globalization proceeded more rapidly.
Subjects: 
Inequality
partisan theory
globalization
panel data models
JEL: 
D31
D72
F62
H80
N30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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