This paper presents data on the wealth of households by age cohort based on new data from the 2013 Survey of Consumer … Finances (SCF). It shows that the upward redistribution of wealth continued between 2010 and 2013. As a result, most households … had less wealth in 2013 than they did in 2010 and much less than in 1989, the first year examined. This is in spite of the …

-called “left-populist” governments, have failed to effectively reduce inequality in the 2000s and have only benefitted from high …

following the military coup of June 2009. It finds that economic inequality in Honduras has increased dramatically since 2010 …

This report argues that a key driver in rising inequality and a decline in the employment to population ratio is … links this policy-induced flexibility to high and rising inequality and shows that such flexibility ceased long ago to …

The OECD recently published a lengthy volume examining the causes of rising inequality in most wealthy countries over … the last three decades. This paper examines that study, finding that the OECD misses most of the story of inequality … most of the benefits of rising inequality were concentrated much further up the income ladder. In contrast to the OECD …

. Treating future Social Security benefits as a form of wealth, it projects the impact of a gradual increase in the normal … retirement age from 67 to 70 (2 months a year for 18 years) on each quintile of the wealth distribution using data from the …-homeowners, single individuals and couples in the age cohorts 35-44, 45-54, and 55-64. The projections show that Social Security wealth …