This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini … one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices …

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 …

inequality. In high income countries, the evidence that income (wealth) does have a causal impact on health in adulthood is weak …

conditions that limit the fully selfless transfer of their wealth. …

rise in the ratio of household wealth to GDP in the rich countries since the 1980s and the role played by the build-up of … income and wealth inequality that has accompanied the rise in the wealth/income ratio, especially in the US and Britain; on … a progressive global tax on net household wealth; and on the progress that has been made in the US and Europe in …