-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was …This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses … the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are there common trends across countries or over the path of development …

particular interest to economists, namely income and wealth and (b) to discuss issues in relation to their use, in particular … with respect to missing data. We describe how the income and wealth data were collected. We assess the quality of the … consider the relationship between income/wealth and life satisfaction, another variable captured in TILDA. We find that income …

north- and particularly the southwest. Low village income results in long-distance migration for many ethnic minorities, but …

countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain …, results from panel regression fixed effects models indicate that changes in wealth, income and consumption all produce … with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany …

The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that household income has statistically significant but … only small effects on measures of subjective well-being. Income, however, is clearly an imperfect measure of the economic … circumstances of households. Using data drawn from the 2001 and 2002 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia …

a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the role of income and wealth as dimensions of multidimensional well … top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within … the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of …

Given its significance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively little attention in the … increases with rising inequality. …

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of … part of the paper tackles the challenge of comparability of income-tax based estimates across countries and across time …. The second part summarizes the evidence about top income shares. Across these five countries, the shares of the very …