This paper combines national accounts, survey, wealth and fiscal data (including recently
released tax data on high-income taxpayers) in order to provide consistent series on the …

A vast literature suggests that economic inequality has important consequences for politics
and public policy. Higher inequality is thought to increase demand for income redistribution …

This chapter offers an overview of the empirical and theoretical research on the long-run
evolution of wealth and inheritance. Wealth–income ratios, inherited wealth, and wealth …

This paper provides historical series on the evolution of the share of inherited wealth in
aggregate private wealth in Europe (France, the UK, Germany, Sweden) and the USA over …

This paper estimates the level and distribution of household wealth globally, as well as for
regions and countries, for the period 2000–2014. The data used are mainly from household …

I combine household surveys, national accounts and unique personal income tax records to
produce the first estimates of the national income distribution in an Arab country, Lebanon. I …

We study how the problem of the 'missing rich', the underrepresentation of the wealthiest in
household surveys, affects wealth inequality estimates for the post‐socialist countries of …

Bottom of the pyramid (BOP) consumers differs in marketplace behavior owing to their socio-
economic and long exposure to poverty. The purpose of this study is to summarize the latest …

The past half century has seen a huge expansion in the quantity and quality of available
information on income distribution throughout the world. 1 Sample surveys are conducted …

The relationship between inequality and growth has attracted a lot of attention in the
previous literature. Estimation of this relationship may be biased by simultaneity, omitted …