WEALTH DISTRIBUTION AND INVESTMENT INCOME IN BRITAIN*

Anthony Atkinson and Alan Harrison

Review of Income and Wealth, 1974, vol. 20, issue 2, 125-142

Abstract: This paper examines two different approaches to the estimation of the size distribution of wealth. The first section describes new estimates for the distribution in Britain in 1968 using the estate method and discusses the sensitivity of the results to the main assumptions. The second section presents preliminary estimates using the investment data, a method which has not been widely used. In the final section the results obtained for the upper tail of the distribution from the two methods are compared.

Date: 1974
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