Comparative research on income inequality has produced several frameworks to study the
institutional determinants of income stratification. In contrast, no such framework and much …

This article compares the wealth situation of children across fourteen countries. Children
experience lower levels of wealth than the rest of the population, seniors in particular. We show …

This study examines the role of occupational classes in the Gender Wealth Gap (GWG).
Despite rising interest in gender differences in wealth, the central role of occupations in …

Germany has one of the highest levels of wealth concentration of any Western capitalist
country. Research on the legitimization of economic inequality highlights that wealth elites tend …

Bourdieu’s concept of the social space is a powerful tool for analyzing social inequality in
contemporary societies (Bourdieu 1984). His theory combines a structural dimension of …

This special issue addresses the question of why high levels of wealth inequality in many
countries are not met with greater public discontent and demand for redistribution. The …

This chapter investigates the wealth accumulation patterns of the German upper-middle and
upper classes. It examines the role of wealth in the overall capital portfolios of the German …

This paper applauds the vision and originality of Piketty's Capital and Ideology. We draw
attention to the distinctive methodological perspective which he adopts, which we liken to call “…

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