Arbeitspapier
Comparing global inequality of income and wealth
This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less - around one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices, bar the share of the top 1 per cent. Over time, changes in countries' mean income and wealth, and population sizes, have reduced world inequality. Income inequality has changed little within countries, so the downward trend remains intact. However, within-country wealth inequality has risen, halting the downward shift in global wealth inequality and raising the share of the top 1 per cent after 2007.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- ISBN
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978-92-9256-602-9
- Erschienen in
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Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2018/160
Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs: General
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
General Welfare; Well-Being
world
inequality
income
wealth
distribution
Shorrocks, Anthony F.
- DOI
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doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2018/602-9
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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12.07.2024, 13:21 MESZ
Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Davies, James B.
- Shorrocks, Anthony F.
- The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Entstanden
- 2018
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