Concentration among the rich

Arbeitspapier

The aim of this paper is to examine the concentration of wealth among the group of top wealth holders, defined as those with wealth in excess of a high cut off. The paper begins by considering the definition of this cut off, analogous to the definition of a poverty line at the other end of the distribution. It then considers what can be learned about the proportion classified as ‘rich’ and about the concentration among the rich from four non-survey sources: journalists’ lists, estate data, wealth tax data, and investment income tax data. It starts off from the world’s billionaires in 2006, but is particularly concerned with changes over time within countries, taking France, Germany, the UK, and the USA, to illustrate the different sources.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 9291909351=978-92-9190-935-3
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Research Paper ; No. 2006/151

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts ; Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
• Thema: wealth ; inequality ; assets ; rich ; Vermögensverteilung ; Reichtum ; Frankreich ; Deutschland ; Großbritannien ; USA

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Atkinson, Anthony B.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2006

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/63478
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ