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 …

find that the tax-transfer scheme positively affects growth while simultaneously reducing wealth inequality in the economy …

We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization … until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evidence from estate- and wealth tax data, estimates of … foreign and domestic family firm-wealth and of pension and social security wealth. We find that the Swedish wealth …

We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the begin-ning of industrialization … until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evi-dence from estate- and wealth tax data, estimates of … foreign and domestic family firm-wealth and of pension and social security wealth. We find that the Swedish wealth …

Do income disparities between men and women translate into longer term wealth disparities? We use the Survey of Income …

This paper analyzes the sources of disparities in the relative wealth position of Mexican Americans. Results reveal … that wealth gaps are in large part not the result of differences in conditional expected wealth functions. Similarly … more of Mexican Americans? wealth disadvantage is attributable to the fact that these families have more young children and …

SIPP data are used to analyze the wealth of the U.S. foreign-born population. We find that the median wealth level of U ….S.-born couples is 2.3 times the median of foreign-born couples, while the median wealth level of U.S.-born singles is three times … that of foreign-born singles. Further, there is a great deal of diversity in wealth within the immigrant population …

The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining … net wealth that is currently on the German political agenda. We use survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …) and estimate the net wealth distribution at the very top, based on publicly available information about very rich Germans …

The distributions of income and wealth in countries across the world are found to possess some robust and stable …

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 … wealth. …