Well known research based on capitalized income tax data shows robust growth in wealth concentration in the late 2000s …. We show that these robust growth estimates rely on an assumption---homogeneous rates of return across the wealth … interest-bearing assets), wealth concentration estimates in 2011 fall from 40.5% to 33.9%. These estimates are consistent in …

States. However, these illiquid, non-market forms of wealth are typically excluded from measures of net worth. To the extent … that these broadly held resources substitute for savings, measures of wealth inequality that do not account for DB pensions … and Social Security may be overstated. This paper develops an alternative, expanded wealth concept, augmenting precise net …

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 …

In the USA, the share of household wealth held by the richest 1% increased from 23.5% in 1980 to 41.8% in 2012. This … the economy. This shock can simultaneously match the increase in wealth concentration and the decrease of the saving rate …

We analyze the top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, and Spain based on the first and second wave of … the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be underrepresented in household … countries. As a result, the top percentile share of household wealth in Germany jumps up from 24 percent to 31 percent in the …

This paper develops a new approach for dealing with the under-reporting of wealth in house- hold survey data … (differential nonresponse). The current practice among researchers relying on household wealth survey data is one out of three … substantially reduces nonresponse bias in the Pareto tail estimates. Applying the procedure to wealth survey data (HFCS, SCF, WAS …

We analyze the top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, and Spain based on the first and second wave of … the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be underrepresented in household … countries. As a result, the top percentile share of household wealth in Germany jumps up from 24 percent to 31 percent in the …