@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp13731, author={Advani, Arun and Koenig, Felix and Pessina, Lorenzo and Summers, Andy}, title={Importing Inequality: Immigration and the Top 1 Percent}, year={2020}, month={Sep}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={13731}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13731}, 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={income inequality;migration;top income shares}, }