disadvantage in terms of income than their counterparts. What is less well understood is how they fare in terms of their wealth … and household wealth holdings. We find that overall disabled people have substantially lower household wealth and all … components of wealth (property, financial, pension, physical) than non-disabled people but even these average differences mask …

Using the evidence from the Luxembourg Wealth Study it appears that the distribution of wealth in the UK is … considerably less than in Canada, the US or Sweden. But does this result come from an underestimate of inequality among the wealthy … and of the wealth differential between the rich and the rest? Using a Pareto model for the upper tail of the distribution …

The theory of functional equations is used to clarify the relationship between equilibrium distributions of wealth and …

This paper presents the first UK estimates of the association between parental wealth during adolescence and a range of … children’s outcomes in early adulthood. Parental wealth is positively associated with all outcomes examined (which include … association reflects the indirect effect of parental wealth on children’s education whereas for homeownership the estimated …

There has been a large rise in the UK ratio of personal wealth to national income. Personal wealth has grown since the … 1970s about twice as fast in real terms as national income. Has this rise in the wealth-income ratio led to a corresponding … increase in the wealth being passed on from one generation to the next? Are we returning to the levels of inheritance found in …

Market participants' risk attitudes, wealth and portfolio composition in°uence their positions in a pegged foreign …

This paper examines trends in the distribution of household wealth in Great Britain from 1995 to 2005 using the British … Household Panel Survey (BHPS). The data show that wealth is very unevenly distributed and reveal a widening absolute gap over … the period between wealthier households and those with no or negative wealth. However, in relative terms, wealth grew …

growing inequality in PC ownership over the 1980s and 1990s. Analysis of ownership patterns of four other household consumer … durables suggests that there may be significant limitations to relying solely on the market to eradicate PC inequality quickly. …

The ‘deliberative turn’ in democratic theory has generated a wealth of deliberative experiments. The purpose of … to research on poverty, well-being and inequality, where there is a need to define and justify the thresholds and …