correlate with household net wealth (or income). Bond price increases thus leave net wealth inequality largely unchanged. In … wealth inequality. Housing price increases display a hump shaped pattern over the net wealth distribution, with the poorest …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

Overall income inequality in South Africa is very high, and inequality generated in the labour market is a key driver … of inequality. In this paper, I use the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series, the General Household Surveys, and … administrative tax microdata to describe earnings inequality in South Africa. I estimate Gini coefficients, the variance of log …

it. The paper documents how inequality in terms of the ability to build up wealth has increased in Japan over the past …

homogeneous MPC rates. Consumption inequality is countercyclical in this setting and a high degree of leverage amplifies the …

This paper studies the secular increase in U.S. household debt and its relation to growing income inequality and …

interventions are therefore seen as instrumental in cushioning against the impact of the crisis on inequality and poverty. Finally …

This paper studies the secular increase in U.S. household debt and its relation to growing income inequality and …