income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable household-level survey data. We focus on the dependence …This paper considers a parametric model for the joint distribution of income and wealth. The model is used to analyze … parameter between the two variables and study whether accounting for wealth and income jointly reveals a different pattern of …

This paper investigates the relationship between the capital share in national income and personal income inequality … Wealth and Income Database, we find strong long-run links between the aggregate role of capital in the economy and the size … income shares with a broader measure of inequality (Gini coefficient), the positive relationship re-mains but becomes …

education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … other sub-national regions. However, Tanzanian society is becoming more unequal in wealth with rising wealth inequality …This study uses five series of demographic and health surveys to answer the question: 'Is horizontal inequality in …

We study beliefs about wealth inequality and preferences for wealth redistribution. For this, we conduct a large …-scale online survey in Germany. First, we analyze how well participants are informed about the German wealth distribution and their … position in it. Second, we investigate how preferences for wealth redistribution are affected by an information experiment. One …

individuals' fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality …'s contribution highlights the importance of 'intuitive' measures of political matters such as wealth inequality. It further indicates …This paper seeks to understand whether the way in which inequality is communicated through measurements influences …

amounts of resources, this inherited inequality may be considered simultaneously fair and unfair from a meritocratic … payments between pairs of individuals. We vary whether inequality in the initial distribution is based on luck or effort and …-Inherited Inequality) or between individuals who differentially benefit from the work of real-life friends (Inherited Inequality …