standard economic indicators of income/consumption and wealth, the paper briefly reviews distributions of selected non …This paper contributes to the literature by reviewing levels, trends, and structure of inequality since the early 1990s … in India. It draws extensively on the existing literature, supplemented with analyses of multiple data sources, to paint …

Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality … shocks. The response of consumption to permanent and transitory income shocks becomes weaker later in the sample, consistent … decreased during the 2000-2005 economic recovery. The decrease appears to be driven by falling volatility of transitory income …

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

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. …

relatively income rich households accumulated new wealth. In the postwar period, the entire top decile lost out relative to the … in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. …We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization …

relatively income rich households accumulated new wealth. In the postwar period, the entire top decile lost out relative to the … in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. …We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the begin-ning of industrialization …

state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results …

his paper investigates some major changes in the wealth distribution in China using the data from two national … household surveys conducted in 1995 and 2002. The surveys collected rich information on household wealth and its components …, enabling a detailed analysis of changes in wealth distribution among Chinese households. Our analysis indicates that the wealth …

explains an increasing share of income inequality; and that the wealth inequality contribution of primary residence has …We quantify the contribution of rental income to pre- and post-government equivalent household income inequality and of … housing wealth to net wealth inequality between 2002 and 2017 in Germany by means of a factor decomposition. Further, we …

are household equivalent disposable in-come, household consumption, and wealth. Subsequently we use the Income and …, consumption, and wealth. Generally, we find that these three concepts tell different stories about the level of inequality and its … Expenditure Survey (Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS)) for Germany since 1993 to compare inequality across income …