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Fichier |
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Pré-publication, Document de travail |
Titre |
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Top Wealth Shares in the UK over more than a Century
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Résumé |
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Recent research highlighted controversy about the evolution of concentration of personal wealth. In this paper we provide new evidence about the long-run evolution of top wealth shares for the United Kingdom. The new series covers a long period – from 1895 to the present – and has a different point of departure from the previous literature: the distribution of estates left at death. We find that the application to the estate data of mortality multipliers to yield estimates of wealth among the living does not substantially change the degree of concentration over much of the period both, in the UK and US, allowing inferences to be made for years when this method cannot be applied. The results show that wealth concentration in the UK remained relatively constant during the first wave of globalization, but then decreased dramatically in the period from 1914 to 1979. The UK went from being more unequal in terms of wealth than the US to being less unequal. However, the decline in UK wealth concentration came to an end around 1980, and since then there is evidence of an increase in top shares, notably in the distribution of wealth excluding housing in recent years. We investigate the triangulating evidence provided by data on capital income concentration and on reported super fortunes.
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Auteur(s)
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Facundo Alvaredo
1, 2, 3
, Anthony Atkinson
4
, Salvatore Morelli
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PSE -
Paris School of Economics
( 301309 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne ( 7550 )
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École normale supérieure - Paris ( 59704 )
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Université Paris Sciences et Lettres ( 564132 )
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École des hautes études en sciences sociales ( 99539 )
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École des Ponts ParisTech ( 301545 )
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( 441569 )
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Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement ( 577435 )
2
WIL -
World Inequality Lab
( 1006727 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
3
PJSE -
Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques
( 578027 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne UMR8545 ( 7550 )
;
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École normale supérieure - Paris ( 59704 )
;
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Université Paris Sciences et Lettres ( 564132 )
;
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École des hautes études en sciences sociales ( 99539 )
;
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École des Ponts ParisTech ( 301545 )
;
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( 441569 )
;
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Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement UMR1393 ( 577435 )
4
Nuffield -
Nuffield
( 172365 )
- Nuffield College New Road Oxford OX1 1NF
- France
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University of Oxford ( 302612 )
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CUNY -
City University of New York [New York]
( 302931 )
- 217 East 42 St, New York, NY 10017
- États-Unis
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Public visé |
Scientifique
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Date de production/écriture |
2017
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Mots-clés (JEL) |
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D - Microeconomics/D.D3 - Distribution
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H - Public Economics/H.H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
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N - Economic History/N.N3 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy
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Domaine(s) |
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Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances
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Référence interne |
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World Inequality Lab Working Papers n°2017-02
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Mots-clés |
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Inequality, inequality dynamics, top income, wealth share, DINA, Distributional National Accounts, United Kingdom World Inequality Lab
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