This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …

individuals' fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality …'s contribution highlights the importance of 'intuitive' measures of political matters such as wealth inequality. It further indicates …

In this report, we present improved wealth measures for the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which aim to reduce the … effect of observation error on wealth levels and changes in wealth. The new wealth measures take account of the asset … data reduce the standard deviations of wave-to-wave changes by substantial amounts (up to 57 percent for total wealth). The …

There is a burgeoning literature on the significance and distribution of wealth in the rich world. It mainly focuses on … the top. Wealth remains remarkably absent from the analysis of poverty and the redistributive effectiveness of welfare … financially vulnerable. We introduce the concept of triple precariousness, afflicting households that not only have low income but …

the basis of a "wealth index" constructed largely from observed income flows, with the intent of heavily oversampling … wealthy households. Although the SCF is not specifically designed to estimate wealth concentration, the design arguably … by using tax-based data directly, by using a construct very close to a key part of the SCF wealth index. Such an approach …

Matching ; Survey of Consumer Finances ; Annual Demographic Supplement ; Distribution of Income and Wealth …

consequences of income inequality. Economists are prone to similar, although more reasoned and empirically based, debates. This … book is a curated collection of essays that explore a wide range of viewpoints about income inequality in the United States …. Neither income nor income inequality is easily measured and, consequently, economists have different views about what is the …

proximity in the income distribution to the reference individual. …