Importing Inequality: Immigration and the Top 1 percent

Arun Advani, Felix Koenig, Lorenzo Pessina and Andy Summers
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Lorenzo Pessina: Columbia University
Andy Summers: London School of Economics

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Abstract: In this paper we study the contribution of migrants to the rise in UK top incomes. Using administrative data on the universe of UK taxpayers we show migrants are over-represented at the top of the income distribution, with migrants twice as prevalent in the top 0.1% 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 (85%) of the growth in the UK top 1% income share over the past 20 years can be attributed to migration.

Keywords: JEL Classification: H2; J3; J6. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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Working Paper: Importing Inequality: Immigration and the Top 1 Percent (2020)
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