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CReAM Brown Bag Online Seminar presented by Arun Advani (University of Warwick)
01 December 2020, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
Importing Inequality: Immigration and the top 1 percent (with Felix Koenig, Lorenzo Pessina and Andy Summers)
Event Information
Open to
- All
Organiser
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Tuan Nguyen
Location
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Room 321Drayton House30 Gordon StreetLondonWC1H 0AX
Abstract: In this paper we study the contribution of migrants to the rise in UK top in-comes. Using administrative data on the universe of UK taxpayers we show migrants are over-represented at the top of the income distribution, with mi-grants 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.
Zoom Meeting ID: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/94466897690
Password: please email Maria Lambrianidou (m.lambrianidou@ucl.ac.uk) for password
About the Speaker
Arun Advani
at (University of Warwick)
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