income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable household-level survey data. We focus on the dependence … social inequality than the traditional 'income only' approach. We find that cross-country variations in the dependence … parameter effectively accounts only for a small fraction of cross-country differences in a bivariate measure of inequality. The …

Much of the literature on inequality, both that on the theoretical features of inequality measurement and that on the … discussion of the results of empirical analysis, has preferred to focus on income inequality. This paper looks into the analysis … of wealth inequality, which can be performed by carefully adapting the techniques used in the case of income …

; wealth distribution ; inequality ; exchange economies ; money …

easy-to-use toolbox. Our method extends standard linearization techniques and is designed to work in cases when inequality … factor-specific productivity shocks shape dynamics of income and consumption inequality. …