http://hdl.handle.net/2262/62023 Fri, 03 Nov 2017 02:50:11 GMT 2017-11-03T02:50:11Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61916 Introduction to the Special Issue Neary, J. Peter Brendan Walsh retired in May 2005 from the Chair of Applied Economics and the National Economics of Ireland which he had held at University College Dublin since 1980. During that time his academic and popular writings confirmed his position as a scholar of international renown and the foremost commentator on the Irish economy. To mark his retirement and to celebrate his achievements, a conference was held at University College Dublin on October 7 2005, at which papers were presented by his former students and colleagues on a wide range of topics relating to the Irish and world economies. This issue of The Economic and Social Review contains the edited proceedings of the conference. Macroeconomic Perspectives: Special Issue in Honour of Brendan M. Walsh Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61916 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61905 Publications of Brendan M. Walsh Walsh, Brendan M. Publications of Brendan M. Walsh Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61905 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61904 An interview with Brendan Walsh Neary, J. Peter An interview with Brendan Walsh Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61904 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60894 Mobility and gender at the top tail of the earnings distribution Finnie, Ross; Irvine, Ian The increasing share of the top fractile in the earnings distributions of several Anglo- Saxon heritage economies since the 1970s has been dramatic, and well documented. To date, however, little is known about the socio-economic origins and gender composition of the very top tail in the modern era. This paper takes a first step in filling some of the holes in our knowledge. We use a tax-filer data base for Canada for the period 1983-2003 that contains about eighty million observations. We show first that male earners in the top one thousandth of the distribution come very disproportionately from families with incomes in the top decile. In contrast, individuals in the remaining part of the top centile have more dispersed socio-economic origins. Second we show that female participation in the top fractiles has been very low, and that growth in participation has been slow yet definite. In contrast, female earnings in this echelon are almost on par with male earnings. Third, we show that there is an enormous asymmetry between the genders when it comes to spousal earnings: high-earning women have very high-earning spouses, but not vice versa. `Secondary males? have earnings levels almost ten times as high as `secondary females?, suggesting that, even at this extremely elevated earnings level there is truth to the adage about who lies `behind? successful individuals. Finally, it is illustrated that the earnings concentration that has characterised the last three decades did not change with the end of the `tech boom? in the year 2000. An earlier version was presented at the Conference on Macroeconomic Perspectives in Honour of Brendan M. Walsh, held at University College Dublin on 7 October, 2005 Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60894 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z