TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Advani, Arun
AU  - Koenig, Felix
AU  - Pessina, Lorenzo
AU  - Summers, Andy
        TI  - Importing Inequality: Immigration and the Top 1 Percent
        PY  - 2020/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13731
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13731
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - income inequality
KW  - migration
KW  - top income shares
        ER  -