A Micro Perspective on r $>$ g. Iacono, R. & Palagi, E. Economica, 90(358):531–556, April, 2023.
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By exploiting large-scale administrative data on income and estimated personal wealth in Norway from 2010 to 2018, this paper establishes the first micro-level analysis of the difference between the real return on wealth and the real growth rate of total pre-tax income, across the entire net wealth distribution. We show that for the top 40% of the distribution, the aggregate R-G of 1.8% underestimates its micro counterpart r-g, while the opposite happens for the bottom 60%. Moreover, for the bottom 50% of the net wealth distribution, it is indeed the case that r

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