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Immigration and the top 1 percent

Summers, Andrew ORCID: 0000-0002-4978-7743, Advani, Arun, Koenig, Felix and Pessina, Lorenzo (2024) Immigration and the top 1 percent. Review of Economics and Statistics. ISSN 0034-6535 (In Press)

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Abstract

Using administrative data on the universe of UK taxpayers, we study the contribution of migrants to the rise in UK top incomes. We show migrants are over-represented at the top of the income distribution, with migrants twice as prevalent in the top 0.01% as anywhere in the bottom 97%. These high incomes are predominantly from labour, rather than capital, and migrants are concentrated in only a handful of industries, predominantly finance. Almost all (90%) of the observed growth in the UK top 1% income share over the past 20 years has accrued to migrants.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: © 2024 MIT Press
Divisions: Law
Subjects: K Law
Date Deposited: 09 Feb 2024 11:24
Last Modified: 14 Sep 2024 09:52
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/121988

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