Jérôme, BOURDIEU; Martha, MENENDEZ; Gilles, POSTEL-VINAY - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquee, INRA - 2007
This paper uses a unique database of individual estates to explore the geographical dimension in the historical evolution of the wealth distribution in France since 1820 onwards. We use inequality index decomposition techniques and micro-simulations of wealth distributions to stress the...