This paper estimates the distribution of personal wealth in South Africa by combining tax microdata, household surveys …, and macroeconomic balance sheet statistics. We systematically compare estimates of the wealth distribution obtained by … direct measurement of net worth, rescaling of reported wealth to balance sheet totals, and capitalization of income flows. We …

education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … other sub-national regions. However, Tanzanian society is becoming more unequal in wealth with rising wealth inequality …

This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini … one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices …

individuals' fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality …'s contribution highlights the importance of 'intuitive' measures of political matters such as wealth inequality. It further indicates …

Davies et al. (2008, 2011) provided the first estimates of the global distribution of wealth, using 2000 as the … learned about trends in the level and distribution of global wealth for the period 2000-14. Finally, the paper discusses the …

and mapping indicators of horizontal wealth inequality along geographic regions and ethnolinguistic identities. Using … average household wealth indicators, there is a strong suggestion of increasing group inequalities between 1997 and 2017 …, the differences in average wealth between groups, if perceived, may feed grievances. They should be better understood so …

Understanding wealth inequality has unique significance in South Africa. The coexistence of extreme poverty and extreme … wealth is starkly visible. Apartheid-era inequality has persisted despite more than 20 years of democracy. Much of the … research on inequality has focused on inequality of income and of opportunities. There is a large gap in understanding wealth …

important to focus both policy and research efforts on these. Therefore, this study examines the effect of wealth inequality on … CO2 emissions in five emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The top decile of wealth share … was used as a measure of wealth inequality, while CO2 emissions per capita were used as a measure of CO2 emissions. GDP …

This paper examines the relationship between monetary policy and wealth inequality in South Africa. We employed a …- and random-effects panel model estimates show that monetary policy generally increases wealth Gini inequality while it … decreases the wealth 90-10 percentile differential. Increasing asset prices and gross domestic product per capita generally …