household's total command over economic resources in the six years between 1999 and 2005. Although inequality in economic well …

his paper investigates some major changes in the wealth distribution in China using the data from two national … household surveys conducted in 1995 and 2002. The surveys collected rich information on household wealth and its components …, enabling a detailed analysis of changes in wealth distribution among Chinese households. Our analysis indicates that the wealth …

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 …, wealth tax data, and investment income tax data. It starts off from the world’s billionaires in 2006, but is particularly …

a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the role of income and wealth as dimensions of multidimensional well … the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of …

important characteristic of this survey is that it oversamples high-wealth households. Another important characteristic of the … the changes in income, asset holdings, and wealth of Spanish households between the end of 2002 and 2005 …

of a decrease in expenditure on consumer durables by low-income households. Wealth inequality exceeds income inequality … document analyses the level of inequality in Spain and how it evolved over the course of the past crisis and the early stages … of the current recovery. To this end, it first introduces the various dimensions of wage, income, consumption and wealth …

and wealth inequality, and studies how they have developed. The analysis shows less wage dispersion in Spain than in other … of a decrease in expenditure on consumer durables by low-income households. Wealth inequality exceeds income inequality …This paper analyses the level of inequality in Spain and how it evolved over the course of the past crisis and the …

financial literacy and business ownership for the increase in wealth inequality between college and non-college households. …Using new long-run microdata, this paper studies wealth and income trends of college and non-college households in the … United States since 1956. We document the emergence of a substantial college wealth premium since the 1980s, which is …

This paper surveys possible motivations for having a net wealth tax. After giving a short overview over the state of … wealth taxation in OECD countries, we discuss both popular arguments for such a tax, as well as economic arguments. It is … net wealth tax. The efficiency-related effects are also discussed and shown to be theoretically ambiguous, while empirical …

inequality. In high income countries, the evidence that income (wealth) does have a causal impact on health in adulthood is weak … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … difficult to gauge the magnitude of the contribution this makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks …