Boyer, Marcel (2020) Inequalities: Income, Wealth and consumption. TSE Working Paper, n. 20-1105, Toulouse

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Abstract

I consider as misplaced the current emphasis on income and wealth inequalities as compared to the socially more relevant consumption inequalities, which have been significantly reduced over the last decades and most likely for a much longer period of time. One important factor has been the development of social transfers in kind which add significant resources to the lowest income quintile as compared to the highest quintile. I present the main characteristics of developments of income and wealth inequalities over time (since 1920): The share of the top 1% of earners followed a downward trend until the 1970-79 decade, and an upward trend afterwards, reaching
in the 2010-19 decade a level similar to that of the 1920-29 decade. The share of the top 10% of earners followed a similar movement. The same picture is observed for wealth inequality. Similar increases in income inequality over the last four decades are also observed in music and sports.

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Language: English
Date: May 2020
Place of Publication: Toulouse
Uncontrolled Keywords: Income Inequalities, Consumption inequalities
Keywords (French): Inégalités de revenus, Inégalité de consommation
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Institution: Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 14 May 2020 08:11
Last Modified: 27 Oct 2021 13:38
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:124286
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/34985
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