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A convenient representation of the wealth distribution and more evidence on homeownership and wealth inequality in euro area countries
Biewen, Martin; Glaisner, Stefan; Kleimann, Rolf - 2021
for wealth inequality in euro area countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698172
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Vermögen in Deutschland wesentlich ungleicher verteilt als Einkommen
Grabka, Markus M.; Frick, Joachim R. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 45, pp. 665-672
Das private Vermögen in Deutschland ist vor dem Hintergrund der Erbschaftsteuerreform und der zunehmenden Privatisierung der sozialen Vorsorge verstärkt in den Blickpunkt der wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischen Diskussion gerückt. Mit den Ergebnissen der Vermögenserhebung im Rahmen des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601764
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Inheritances and the distribution of wealth or whatever happened to the great inheritance boom?
Wolff, Edward N.; Gittleman, Maury - 2011
transfers to other sources of household wealth has had a sizeable effect on reducing the inequality of wealth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605346
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Inequality and Growth: A Joint Analysis of Demand and Supply
Shen, Ling - 2006
Empirical evidence on the relationship between a country?s wealth inequality and economic growth is ambiguous. This … research on the base of the Gini-coefficient cannot generate a general relationship between wealth inequality and economic … growth. Moreover, the impact of wealth inequality on economic growth is through the supply of human capital as well as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263165
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Long-Run Changes in the Concentration of Wealth: An Overview of Recent Findings
Waldenström, Daniel; Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper - 2007
The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development. More specifically, we are interested in distinguishing between changes which seem to be country specific and characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320107
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Wealth Concentration over the Path of Development: Sweden, 1873–-2006
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2007
inequality increased. We introduce new ways of approximating the effects of international flows and find that the recent increase … in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320172
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Wealth concentration over the path of development: Sweden, 1873 - 2005
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2007
inequality increased. We introduce new ways of approximating the effects of international flows and find that the recent increase … in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281378
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Recent trends in household wealth in the United States: Rising debt and the middle-class squeeze - An update to 2007
Wolff, Edward N. - 2010
-class squeeze.' Median wealth grew briskly in the late 1990s. It grew even faster in the aughts, while the inequality of net worth … prices, indicate that median wealth plunged by 36 percent and there was a fairly steep rise in wealth inequality, with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281726
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Long-run changes in the concentration of wealth: An overview of recent findings
Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2006
The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development. More specifically, we are interested in distinguishing between changes which seem to be country specific and characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284643
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Concentration among the rich
Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2006
The aim of this paper is to examine the concentration of wealth among the group of top wealth holders, defined as those with wealth in excess of a high cut off. The paper begins by considering the definition of this cut off, analogous to the definition of a poverty line at the other end of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284753