Yes, what Piketty and Saez did was a more sophisticated operation on IRS data to get a time series so that we can measure exactly how the top 0.01% etc. did. H

Yes, what Piketty and Saez did was a more sophisticated operation on IRS data to get a time series so that we can measure exactly how the top 0.01% etc. did. Here's the link to the paper if you want the details. http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/ http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/