This article reviews the recent literature on the dynamics of global wealth inequality. I first
reconcile available estimates of wealth inequality in the United States. Both surveys and tax …

This chapter reviews the long-run developments in the distribution of personal income and
wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer …

This book started from our discussions of a paradox. Yet despite its importance it has been
curiously little discussed in the academic literature. On the one hand, the last century of …

Drawing on a unique dataset of leaked customer lists from offshore financial institutions
matched to administrative wealth records in Scandinavia, we show that offshore tax evasion …

A recent literature has constructed top income shares time series over the long run for more
than twenty countries using income tax statistics. Top incomes represent a small share of the …

The paper examines the relationship between the rapid pace of trade and financial
globalization and the rise in income inequality observed in most countries over the past two …

Using the Standardized World Income Inequality Database, we examine if the KOF Index of
Globalization and the Economic Freedom Index of the Fraser institute are related to within …

Research on the economic origins of democracy and dictatorship has shifted away from the
impact of growth and turned toward the question of how different patterns of growth-equal or …

This paper studies determinants of income inequality using a newly assembled panel of 16
countries over the entire twentieth century. We focus on three groups of income earners: the …

This article studies the long-run relationship between the capital share in national income
and top personal income shares. Using a newly constructed historical cross-country …