Under the Rising Wave. How Disaggregated Revenue Sources Can Tell Another Story for Québec’s Top Income Share

Authors

  • Nicolas Zorn Université de Montréal
  • Olivier Jacques McGill University, Montréal, Québec

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/1874-6322.40335

Abstract

Top income investigations usually rely on types of earnings that remain at a tively aggregated level. Using a novel disaggregated dataset for Québec’s top earners, we map the recent evolution of different types of income for the top one percent. Hidden under the steady increase of the top income share, we find that there has been very divergent and sharp rises of different revenue sources at specific moments. When looking at disaggregated data, composition effects and historical counterfactuals in Québec invalidate market-based theories like globalization and skilled biased technical change, but not institution-based theories like financialization, taxation and union strength.

Author Biography

Nicolas Zorn, Université de Montréal

PhD student, department of political science and Policy analyst, Institut du Nouveau Monde

Published

2018-05-15

How to Cite

Zorn, N., & Jacques, O. (2018). Under the Rising Wave. How Disaggregated Revenue Sources Can Tell Another Story for Québec’s Top Income Share. Journal of Income Distribution®, 26(1), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.25071/1874-6322.40335