Using World Bank data from researchers Christoph Lakner and Branko Milanovic, the chart shows how each part of the world’s income distribution fared from 1988 to 2008.

The wage curve across the wealth distribution From voxeu.org However, the academic debate has in recent years focused on documenting the extent to which both capital income and wealth are concentrated ...

But as you can see from the chart it's not really the top 1% that are changing their share of national income. Nor the top 0.1 to 0.5%, not even, really, the top 0.1 percent.

Pavlina Tcherneva’s chart showing the distribution of income gains during periods of economic expansion is burning up the economics internet over the past 24 hours and for good reason.

One chart represented the income distribution of a country; the other two, the wealth distribution of two other countries. Standing alongside a line for tickets to the Late Show With.

Key concept definitions: Wage: Hourly wage for salaried workers in their main occupation. Gini Coefficient: The most common measure of inequality is the Gini coefficient. It is based on the Lorenz ...

Another way to look at inequality is to consider how much of the national income goes to the top of the distribution. Here's the share of income for the top 10% in the US over the last century or so.

As global income distribution has shifted in the two decades up to 2008, the BBC's Andrew Walker looks at one economist's graph that sets out to explain it all - and explains why it's called the ...

The wage curve across the wealth distribution. ... 2014, see also König et al. (2020) for a recent survey). Stiglitz (2015) highlights the need to document the changing distribution of income and ...