This paper compares changes in relative and absolute wealth concentrations to establish if both processes have followed … similar trajectories. The findings indicate that while the level of relative wealth concentration has increased recently, it … is not extraordinarily high in an historical perspective. On the contrary, the level of absolute wealth concentration is …

number of studies have explored empirically the determinants of extraordinary wealth. Using a large dataset we investigate … whether globalization and corruption affect extreme wealth accumulation. We find evidence that an increase in globalization …

Today’s record levels of economic inequality are infecting our future as the top 0.01% bequest vast wealth to their … desire to maximize quantity of offspring. Coupled with the long history of dynastic family wealth in England, this science …). These DFTs will be larded with innovative provisions leveraging a founder’s wealth to maximize descendants’ status for …

Taking survey data on household wealth as our major example, this short paper discusses some of the issues applied …

wealth is difficult to establish due to many potential sources of endogeneity. Utilizing the Household Finance and … wealth position of the household only through homeownership. For the sample of inheritors we find that the local average … reductions in the net holdings of financial and other real wealth of the treated households. …

Davies et al. (2008, 2011) provided the first estimates of the global distribution of wealth, using 2000 as the … learned about trends in the level and distribution of global wealth for the period 2000-14. Finally, the paper discusses the …

While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the … distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German socio … partnership) that might explain this wealth gap. We find that all factors contribute to the explanation of the wealth gap within …

In a recent representative survey, German citizens are asked whether or not inherited wealth beyond a certain amount … this fundamental opposition against the taxation of inherited wealth. We find monetary self-interest and redistributive …-term care. Being at the heart of intra-familial exchange relations, women are more likely to oppose wealth transfer taxation …

Research on wealth inequality usually focuses on real and financial assets, while pension wealth – the present value of … and, thus, should be accounted for in peoples’ wealth portfolios. Using novel data from the Socio Economic Panel (SOEP …), we show the incidence, relevance, and distribution of individual pension wealth, net worth, and augmented wealth (the sum …