The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is a representative repeated survey that has been running since 1984. Every year, on behalf of DIW Berlin, people from households throughout Germany are interviewed by the survey institute. The data provide information on questions about income, employment, education,...

Realtime Inequality - Who Benefits from Income and Wealth Growth in the United States?

Realtime Inequality provides the first timely statistics on how economic growth is distributed across groups. When new growth numbers come out each quarter, the economists from Berekely show how each income and...

The gap between rich and poor, the worldwide rise of populists, the distribution of burdens in the fight against climate change, unfairly distributed educational opportunities - current debates are always about inequality. The connections are complex, but there is still a lack of scientifically soun...

The report is based on data collected from more than 100 WID.world Fellows across five continents, compiled, unified and fed into the World Wealth and Income Database (see www.wid.world/team for more information).

The Forum New Economy is a non-partisan platform that was founded in Berlin in 2019 with the aim of finding new solutions and a new overarching paradigm for the major challenges of climate change, growing inequality and globalization as well as redefining the role of the state. It supports innovativ...

The World's Billionaires is a ranking of the world's richest billionaires by net worth, which is compiled and published annually in March by the American business magazine Forbes. The list was first published in March 1987. The total net worth of each person on the list is estimated and expressed in...