informal employment and to analyze its determinants. We demonstrate that the incidence of informal employment varies across the … different definitions. However, the determinants of informal employment are roughly stable across the different measures as long …

is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment. In … the first part of the paper we demonstrate that its incidence and to a lesser degree its determinants depend on the …

international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about …

increase individuals' financial literacy and that the relationship between financial literacy and wealth is largely …

particular interest to economists, namely income and wealth and (b) to discuss issues in relation to their use, in particular … with respect to missing data. We describe how the income and wealth data were collected. We assess the quality of the … consider the relationship between income/wealth and life satisfaction, another variable captured in TILDA. We find that income …

SIPP data are used to analyze the wealth of the U.S. foreign-born population. We find that the median wealth level of U ….S.-born couples is 2.3 times the median of foreign-born couples, while the median wealth level of U.S.-born singles is three times … that of foreign-born singles. Further, there is a great deal of diversity in wealth within the immigrant population …

a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the role of income and wealth as dimensions of multidimensional well … the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of …

This paper investigates the relationship between wealth, ageing and saving behaviour of private households by using … pooled cross sections of German consumption survey data. Different components of wealth are distinguished, as their impact on … wealth. In addition, the savings rate strongly responds to demographic trends. Besides the direct impact of the age structure …

levels, single immigrants have a wealth advantage of almost $185,000 relative to single native-born individuals. Although the … wealth gap between mixed and native-born couples is not statistically significant, immigrant-only couples have approximately … $150,000 less wealth on average than native-born couples. Relative to equally wealthy native-born couples, immigrant …