Personal wealth from a global perspective

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Skills, education, and the rise of earnings inequality among the “other 99 percent” (2014, background): “In 1900, the typical young, native-born American had only a common school education, about the equivalent of six to eight grades (19).”
Entrepreneurship is not a Binding Constraint on Growth and Development in the Poorest Countries (2011, background): “As Atkinson (2009) showed, by around 1976 the inequality in distribution of wealth in the USA was the lowest since the Second World War; however, since then this inequality has risen to its highest level ever.”
Gender Inequality in Asset Ownership in Latin America: Female Owners vs Household Heads (2012, background): “Although individual-level data on business ownership by sex is available for only two countries, it also demonstrates that a headship analysis underestimates the share of households in which a woman owns a business.”