Tony Atkinson

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Sir Tony Atkinson was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984, a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1974, Honorary Member of the American Economic Association in 1985 and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994. He was President of the Econometric Society in 1988. He was knighted in 2000 and made a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2001. He was the first person to be honoured with the A.SK Social Science Award by the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin in 2007.

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Top incomes and the glass ceiling

Paper Conference paper | | Apr 2015

This paper studies the glass ceiling by analyzing the presence of women at the top of the income distribution using tax record data reported for a sample of countries with individual taxation.

Top incomes and the glass ceiling

Article | Jul 17, 2014

The glass ceiling is typically examined in terms of the distribution of earnings. This column discusses the glass ceiling in the gender distribution of total incomes, including self-employment and capital income. Evidence from Canada and the UK shows we are still far from equality. Though the proportion of women in the top 1% has been rising, the progress is slower, almost non-existent, at the very top of the distribution.

The Chartbook of Economic Inequality

Article | Mar 18, 2014

We are not “all in it together.”

Chartbook of Economic Inequality: 25 Countries 1911-2010

Paper Grantee paper | | Sep 2012

The purpose of this Chartbook is to present a summary of evidence about changes in economic inequality – primarily income, earnings, and wealth – for 25 countries covering a 100 year period from 1911 to 2010.

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So What Can We Do About Inequality?

Article | Jul 24, 2015

Tony Atkinson’s new book points the way forward.