Wolff, Edward N. - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 12 (1998) 3, pp. 131-150
Based on the Survey of Consumer Finances, the distribution of wealth in the United States became much more unequal in the 1980s and that trend continued, albeit at a slower pace, in the 1990s. The only households that saw their mean net worth rise in absolute terms between 1983 and 1995 were...