期刊名称：Quarterly Review: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
印刷版ISSN：0271-5287
电子版ISSN：2163-4378
出版年度：2017
卷号：38
期号：1
页码：1-15
DOI：10.21034/qr.3811
出版社：Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
摘要：We revisit recent empirical evidence about the rise in top income inequality in the United States, drawing attention to some key issues that we believe are critical for an informed discussion about changing inequality since 1980. Our goal is to inform researchers, policymakers, and journalists who are interested in top income inequality. Our analysis is based on a reexamination of publicly available detailed statistics from two administrative data sources: (i) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data on total incomes (labor income plus capital income), reported in Saez (2012), and (ii) individual-level micro data on labor income (wage plus self-employment income) from the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA), reported in Guvenen, Kaplan, and Song (2014). Reexamining these statistics reveals four findings.
