Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/229483 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 8665
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
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.
JEL: 
H20
J30
J60
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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