inequality. We show that the correlation between mobility and inequality depends on which factor caused the change in inequality …. The model can thus help discriminate between different competing explanations of the recent rise in US wage inequality … correlation between wage inequality and mobility. Public subsidies to education reduce inequality, but the effect on mobility is …

This paper investigates some major changes in the wealth distribution in China using the data from two national … household surveys conducted in 1995 and 2002. The surveys collected rich information on household wealth and its components …, enabling a detailed analysis of changes in wealth distribution among Chinese households. Our analysis indicates that the wealth …

used to establish patterns of wealth inequality within countries. Imputations are again performed for countries lacking … cent. Between-country differences in wealth are two-thirds of global inequality according to the Gini coefficient …We provide the first estimate of the level and distribution of global household wealth. Mean assets and debts within …

The aim of this paper is to examine the concentration of wealth among the group of top wealth holders, defined as those … with wealth in excess of a high cut off. The paper begins by considering the definition of this cut off, analogous to the …, wealth tax data, and investment income tax data. It starts off from the world?s billionaires in 2006, but is particularly …

use real wages. To understand the implications of this finding for changes in well-being inequality I use a simple general … increase in well-being inequality even if the increase in real wage inequality is limited. Alternatively, it is possible that … that the increase in well-being inequality between 1980 and 2000 is smaller than the increase in nominal wage inequality. …

. In the short run, cloning reduces inequality. In the long run, it creates a perfectly egalitarian society where all … necessarily eliminate inequality; nor does it disappear in the long run. Finally, if fertility is negatively correlated with …

Household Income and Wealth, which has data on real estate transfers and information on potential donors as well as recipients …. Our sample includes data on 34,885 owners of real estate wealth and 120,686 potential donors. Differences …-in-differences estimates indicate that the abolition of estate taxes has increased the propensity to transfer real estate wealth by about 2 …