"The Dynamics of Income Concentration over the Twentieth Century: The Case of Advanced Economies"
Facundo Alvaredo and Thomas Piketty

This paper offers an overview of the main findings of a collective research project on income distribution in the long run in advanced countries. The decline in income concentration that took place during the first half of the twentieth century was mostly accidental, and does not seem to have much connection with a Kuznets-type process.

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