wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …. In addition to less inequality and a higher median wealth, we also show that wealth quintile mobility in the 1990's has …

household's total command over economic resources in the six years between 1999 and 2005. Although inequality in economic well … income measures (such as after-tax income) in both 1999 and 2005. The median household's economic well-being was lower in …

This paper analyses the pre-tax inequality in the income that individuals actually receive in Brazil and the role of … the personal income tax in regulating these incomes. We produce a new distributional series of fiscal income, consistently … combining annual and nationally representative household survey data with detailed information on income tax declarations …

-class squeeze.' Median wealth grew briskly in the late 1990s. It grew even faster in the aughts, while the inequality of net worth … prices, indicate that median wealth plunged by 36 percent and there was a fairly steep rise in wealth inequality, with the …-aughts; among the middle class, the debt-to-income ratio reached its highest level in 24 years. The concentration of investment …

at the lower and upper tails of the income distribution. While Latin America has improved education mobility in recent …

economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …

disclose the dramatic upward trend in inequality. On this basis, we estimate a two-equation model for the income distribution … functional-personal income distribution nexus. We analyse the labour share under the prism of monopoly and frictional growth, and … labour share fall, while its increase in the 2000s prevented inequality from worsening three times more than it actually did …

Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to … dramatic transformations in the past century. While Classical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial …, dismissed the Classical hypothesis and promoted the viewpoint that the study of income distribution has no importance for the …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … personal factors reduces the estimate of income immobility by around 30 percent. There are also large variations in country …-specific income mobility (estimated to explain some additional 10 percent of inter-temporal income variation). Analyzing the …

This paper focuses on three issues. First, it analyses the increasing inequality of wealth in Sweden in terms of … percentile age and birth cohort differences. Second, it discusses mobility of wealth as a function of age, length of the … bequests. Estimates are given of their share of total net worth, and of their contribution to the inequality and mobility of …