While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the …

? How do the facts relate to proposed theories about changes in inequality? We present the main inequality trends, in some …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was … increasing concentration, but in most cases inequality seems to have been relatively constant at a high level in the nineteenth …

A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in … inequality from Forbes magazine's listing of billionaires and compare its effect on growth to the effects of income inequality … and poverty. We find that wealth inequality reduces economic growth, but when we control for the fact that some …

The vast literature on earnings inequality has so far largely ignored the role played by hours of work. This paper … inequality in hours worked as well as the correlation between the two. We use data for the US, the UK, France, and Germany over … the period 1991-2016 to examine the evolution of inequality in hours worked and of the correlation between individual …

social interactions it can be socially desirable to keep substantial wealth inequality …