14 Inequality and Mobility over the Past Half- Century Using Income, Consumption, and Wealth

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prefatory Note xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. I Income Inequality
7. 1. In Search of the Roots of American Inequality Exceptionalism: An Analysis Based on Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Data 17
8. 2. Rising Between- Firm Inequality and Declining Labor Market Fluidity: Evidence of a Changing Job Ladder 45
9. 3. United States Earnings Dynamics: Inequality, Mobility, and Volatility 69
10. 4 Evidence from Unique Swiss Tax Data on the Composition and Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth 105
11. II Wealth Inequality
12. 5 The Wealth of Generations, with Special Attention to the Millennials 143
13. 6. Wealth Transfers and Net Wealth at Death: Evidence from the Italian Inheritance Tax Records, 1995– 2016 175
14. 7. On the Distribution of Estates and the Distribution of Wealth: Evidence from the Dead 205
15. 8. Structuring the Analysis of Wealth Inequality Using the Functions of Wealth: A Class- Based Approach 221
16. 9 Social Security Wealth, Inequality, and Life- Cycle Saving 249
17. III Income and Wealth Mobility
18. 10 Parental Education and the Rising Transmission of Income between Generations 287
19. 11. Inequality of Opportunity for Income in Denmark and the United States: A Comparison Based on Administrative Data 317
20. 12 Presence and Persistence of Poverty in US Tax Data 383
21. 13 Intergenerational Home Ownership in France over the Twentieth Century 411
22. 14 Inequality and Mobility over the Past Half- Century Using Income, Consumption, and Wealth 437
23. IV Mitigating Inequality
24. 15. The Accuracy of Tax Imputations: Estimating Tax Liabilities and Credits Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data 457
25. 16. Geographic Inequality in Social Provision: V ariation across the US States 499
26. 17 Inequality and the Safety Net in American Cities throughout the Income Distribution, 1929– 1940 529
27. 18 The EITC and Linking Data for Examining Multigenerational Effects 569
28. V Distributional National Accounts
29. 19. Distributing Personal Income: Trends over Time 587
30. 20 Developing Indicators of Inequality and Poverty Consistent with National Accounts 605
31. 21. Distributional National Accounts: A Macro- Micro Approach to Inequality in Germany 625
32. 22 The Distributional Financial Accounts of the United States 641
33. 23 Using Tax Data to Better Capture Top Incomes in Official UK Income Inequality Statistics 679
34. Contributors 701
35. Author Index 707
36. Subject Index 717