personal wealth and inequality in current consumption based on recent representative household surveys from three transition …All countries in transition experienced increases in inequality. They have also undertaken massive privatization of key … slowed down the inequality increases or it pushed it up? Surprisingly little is known in this area. This paper attempts to …

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 …

This paper establishes the principles which should govern the welfare and inequality analysis of heterogeneous income …. However, inequality and welfare comparisons will usually be well defined only if equivalent incomes are obtained using … constant scale factors; and researchers will need to distinguish clearly between inequality of nominal incomes and inequality …