This chapter offers an overview of the empirical and theoretical research on the long-run evolution of wealth and … inheritance. Wealth–income ratios, inherited wealth, and wealth inequalities were high in the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries … show that over a wide range of models, the long-run magnitude and concentration of wealth and inheritance are an increasing …

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 estimates rates of return across the gross wealth distribution in eight European countries. Like … differential saving rates, differential rates of return matter for Post Keynesian theory, because they impact the income and wealth … distribution and add an explosive element to growth models. We show that differential rates of return matter empirically by merging …