A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in … tackling the question, researchers have had to use income as a proxy for wealth. We derive a global measure of wealth … and poverty. We find that wealth inequality reduces economic growth, but when we control for the fact that some …

. Distributional information on households’ wealth is availablefrom the Household Finance and Consumption Survey only for three points … quarterly distributional national wealth by (i) improving the alignment of surveyfieldwork periods with the national accounts … series; and (v)computing euro area aggregates. This paper finds an increase in the net wealth Gini of mosteuro area countries …

that income (wealth) does have a causal impact on health in adulthood is weak. But this may simply reflect the difficulty …

Globalisation has a major impact on the levels and distribution of wealth. The financial markets are highly integrated … wealth over the past 25 years. Nonetheless, this has not led to an equally large increase in property income because the … decrease in rates of return seems to contradict claims that, due to an increase in both financial and inherited wealth, we are …

This paper analyses the joint long-run evolution of wealth and income inequality. We show that top wealth and income … the Solow growth model. In this framework, the co-movement of top wealth and income shares is determined by the relative …-movement between top wealth and income shares over the past century …

other sources, this paper presents seven economic facts about the racial wealth gap in the U.S. We present data on racial … between Black households and White households. While none of the economic factors listed fully explains the racial wealth gap …, each factor, along with a history of racism and discrimination has contributed to the extreme wealth inequality in America …

holdings and liabilities of all households within a country. In principle, when household wealth surveys are explicitly …. Thereafter we investigate missing top tail observation from wealth surveys as a source of discrepancy. By fitting a Pareto … underestimation of the top tail of the wealth distribution. Conceptual and generic differences as well as missing top tail …

It is a well-known criticism that due to its exponential distribution, survey data on wealth is hardly reliable when it … the number of households possessing a net wealth greater than four million Euros as well as their aggregate wealth … suggest that the alleged non-observation bias is considerable, accounting for about one quarter of total net wealth. The …