The British Super-Tax and the Distribution of Income

A. L. Bowley

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1914, vol. 28, issue 2, 255-268

Abstract: Earlier estimates of income-distribution, based on imperfect statistics, 256. — Additional information since 1907–09, 257. — Comparison of new data with Pareto's law, 258. — Considerable discontinuity; possible explanation, 260. — Notes: I, Abatements on moderate incomes (up to £700), 262; II, Super-tax yield, 263; III, Pareto's law, 264; IV, Death duty statistics, 266; V, Statistics of earned income, 267.

Date: 1914
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