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Facundo Alvaredo

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Facundo Alvaredo is Research Fellow at the Paris School of Economics and Conicet. He is also Associate Member of Nuffield College, and Fellow of INET, Oxford University. His interests include income and wealth inequality, personal taxation, and economic history. He is the Executive Director of The World Top Incomes Database.

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Top incomes and the glass ceiling

Paper Conference paper | By Tony Atkinson, Alessandra Casarico, Sarah Voitchovsky, Facundo Alvaredo, Jorgen Modalsli, and Jakob Søgaard | 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.