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New paper on Generalized Pareto Curves (WID.world Working Paper 2018/3)
The new paper, “Applying Generalized Pareto Curves to Inequality Analysis”, by Thomas Blanchet, Bertrand Garbinti, Jonathan Goupille-Lebret and Clara Martínez-Toledano, presents recent
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New paper on the transition from communism to capitalism in China and Russia (WID.world Working Paper 2018/2)
The new paper, “From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia”, by Filip Novokmet, Thomas Piketty, Li Yang and
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New paper on wealth inequality in Paris, 1842-1957 (WID.world Working Paper 2018/1)
This new paper by Thomas Piketty, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, “The End of the Rentiers: Paris 1842-1957”, exploits a unique individual-level database collected from
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New note on revised and extended national wealth series for 8 countries (WID.world Working Paper 2017/23)
This new note by Luis Bauluz presents the methodology used to update macroeconomic national wealth series for Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK
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New paper on global inequality dynamics (WID.world Working Paper 2017/20)
This new paper by Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman reports new estimates of global income inequality presented in the 2018
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World Inequality Report 2018 Methodological Documents available
Five technical notes describing the methodology used for the 2018 World Inequality Report are now available on WID.world: “Technical Notes for Figures and Tables“, by Lucas
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The World Inequality Report 2018, coordinated by Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman was released and presented today at the
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New paper on the evolution of top income inequality in Germany (WID.world Working Paper 2017/18)
This new paper by Charlotte Bartels presents new findings on the long-run dynamics of income inequality in Germany between 1871 and 2013. Top income earners
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New paper on wealth inequality in Spain (WID.world Working Paper 2017/19)
This new paper by Clara Martínez-Toledano combines tax records, national accounts and wealth surveys to estimate detailed series on the evolution of wealth inequality in
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