Trends in the Share of Top Wealth-Holders in Britain, 1923– 1981. Atkinson, A. B., Gordon, J. P. F., & Harrison, A. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 51(3):315–332, 1989.
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This paper re-examines earlier work by Atkinson and Harrison (1978, 1979), which presented a consistent series of estate-based estimates of the distribution of wealth in England and Wales for the years 1923 to 1972, and conducted an econometric analysis of the trends over time in the share of the top 1 percent of wealth-holders.
@article{Atkinsonetal1989,
  title = {Trends in the Share of Top Wealth-Holders in Britain, 1923\textendash 1981},
  author = {Atkinson, A. B. and Gordon, James P. F. and Harrison, Alan},
  year = {1989},
  journal = {Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics},
  volume = {51},
  number = {3},
  pages = {315--332},
  doi = {10.1111/j.1468-0084.1989.mp51003006.x},
  url = {http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1468-0084.1989.mp51003006.x},
  abstract = {This paper re-examines earlier work by Atkinson and Harrison (1978, 1979), which presented a consistent series of estate-based estimates of the distribution of wealth in England and Wales for the years 1923 to 1972, and conducted an econometric analysis of the trends over time in the share of the top 1 percent of wealth-holders.},
  keywords = {Methods of Estimation of Wealth Inequality,Trends in Aggregate Wealth and Wealth Inequality}
}

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