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 …

Equivalisation of incomes for household size and composition is accepted practice when measuring poverty and inequality …

considerably less than in Canada, the US or Sweden. But does this result come from an underestimate of inequality among the wealthy …Using the evidence from the Luxembourg Wealth Study it appears that the distribution of wealth in the UK is … 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 …