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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 …
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-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on income distribution taken from the World Income Inequality …
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This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903-2004. We find that, starting from levels of inequality approximately equal to those in other Western countries at the time, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first eighty...
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The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development … characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the evolution of the wealth distribution in developed countries is … transition. The data used originates from the taxation of wealth and estates. …
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. From World War I up until about 1950, the richest percentile lost ground to the rest of the top wealth decile where …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 …
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This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903 to 2004. We find that, starting from higher levels of inequality than in other Western countries, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first eighty years of the century. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281326
-dustrialization. From World War I up until about 1950, the richest percentile lost ground to the rest of the top wealth decile where …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281378
This paper is about “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” by Thomas Piketty. It identifies his central macroeconomic claims and examines them, arguing that the contentions are theoretically and empirically unwarranted.
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Empirical evidence on the relationship between a country?s wealth inequality and economic growth is ambiguous. This … paper provides reasonable explanations of this ambiguity. We investigate the implications which the shape of wealth … variables, namely the relative wealth of the poor and the population share of the poor, each having a different effect on …
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hin, die unter der Annahme durchgeführt wurden, dass die Entwicklung der Einkommensverteilung nicht umgekehrt von der …
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