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Long-term trends in the distribution of wealth and inheritance

Davies, James B.; Lluberas, Rodrigo; Waldenström, Daniel - 2024

This paper examines long-term trends in aggregate wealth and inheritance and in their distributions, focusing on … developed economies. A key stylized fact is that wealth is less equally distributed than income. Financial assets predominate … among the wealthy, while owner-occupied housing is crucial for middle groups, so higher stock prices raise wealth inequality …

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Estimating regional wealth in Germany : how different are East and West really?

Kreutzmann, Ann-Kristin; Marek, Philipp; Salvati, Nicola; … - 2019

are still below the western German levels. This particularly holds for private net wealth, which reaches only about 40% of … study is designed to develop regional wealth indicators for the 16 federal states and for the 96 regional planning regions … skewness of the wealth distribution using a transformation, b) unit and item non-response, especially the multiple imputation …

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Estimating the impact of alternative multiple imputation methods on longitudinal wealth data : conference paper

Westermeier, Christian; Grabka, Markus M. - 2014

longitudinal imputation strategies for German wealth panel data (SOEP wealth module). The authors create simulation data sets by …

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The evolution of top incomes in an egalitarian society: Sweden, 1903 - 2004

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2006

This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903 to 2004. We find that, starting from higher levels of inequality than in other Western countries, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first eighty years of the century. The...

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The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 19032004

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2006

This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903-2004. We find that, starting from levels of inequality approximately equal to those in other Western countries at the time, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first eighty...

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Long-Run Changes in the Concentration of Wealth: An Overview of Recent Findings

Waldenström, Daniel; Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper - 2007

The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development … characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the evolution of the wealth distribution in developed countries is … transition. The data used originates from the taxation of wealth and estates. …

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The evolution of top incomes in an egalitarian society : Sweden, 1903 - 2004

Roine, Jesper (contributor); … - 2006

; Income distribution ; Wealth distribution ; Top incomes ; Welfare State ; Sweden ; Taxation ; Capital gains …

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Testing Marx

Bartels, Charlotte; Kersting, Felix; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2023

We study the dynamics of capital accumulation, income inequality, capital concentration, and voting up to 1914. Based on new panel data for Prussian regions, we re-evaluate the famous Revisionism Debate between orthodox Marxists and their critics. We show that changes in capital accumulation led...

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Long-Run Changes in the Concentration of Wealth : An Overview of Recent Findings

Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2008

Our objective is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development. More … all countries. A historical account of the evolution of the wealth distribution in developed countries is interesting in …. The data we use originate from the taxation of wealth and estates. We, first, review the recent constructions of new …

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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries Over the Twentieth Century

Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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