The contributors to this comprehensive book compile and analyse the latest data available on household wealth using, as … consensus between the authors is that wealth inequality has generally risen among these OECD countries since the early 1980s …Pt. 1. Wealth changes in North America -- pt. 2. Wealth inequality in European countries -- pt. 3. Other types of …

Recent work has documented a rising degree of wealth inequality in the United States between 1983 and 1998. In this … polarization over this period. The approach here followed provides a decomposition method, based on counterfactual distributions … distance and divergence among the estimated and the counterfactual distributions. The decomposition method is applied to US …

household wealth to household income considerably increases measured inequality and the share of income from wealth in …The standard official measure of household economic well-being in the United States is gross money income. The general … measure to account for one such determinant: household wealth. We then analyze the level and distribution of economic well …