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From: Rewealthization in twenty-first century Western countries: the defining trend of the socioeconomic squeeze of the middle class

Fig. 4

Strobiloids (vertical density curves) of income (left) and wealth (right) in six countries. Note: Country codes refer respectively to DE Germany, FI Finland, FR France, IT Italy, LU Luxembourg, US the United States. The vertical axis represents the medianized levels of equivalized income (left) and household wealth (right). The horizontal axis represents density (surfaces are standardized to 1). The strobiloid is larger when a stronger density of the population is measured at this level of resource. At Y = 4, income/wealth is 4 times the median. In countries where a large share of the population has no wealth, the lower part of the strobiloid is truncated. Sources: Incomes from Luxembourg income study (LIS, https://www.lisdatacenter.org/) circa 2012, and wealth from EU-HFCS 2012 for European countries and SCF 2013 for the US. Authors’ calculations and graphics

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