The Panel on Household Finances (PHF) is a new panel survey on household finances and wealth in Germany conducted by …. -- Survey data ; household panel ; family economics ; household finance ; wealth distribution ; portfolio choice …

net wealth, income, age and housing status distributions for the euro area as a whole and for individual countries, and … remaining constant. Households in the lower end of the net wealth and income distribution, younger households and mortgagors …

are still below the western German levels. This particularly holds for private net wealth, which reaches only about 40% of … study is designed to develop regional wealth indicators for the 16 federal states and for the 96 regional planning regions … skewness of the wealth distribution using a transformation, b) unit and item non-response, especially the multiple imputation …

In this empirical paper we analyze the link between homeownership across cohorts and the net wealth distribution. In … particular we are interested in the effect of the pattern of ownership across cohorts. Given that wealth accumulates over the … cohorts, should be related to current wealth levels and inequality. In order to gauge the effect of the ownership structure …

Wealth in addition to income determines to a large degree an individual’s consumption opportunities and economic … satisfaction as an indicator of subjective well being and households’ wealth. We contribute to the scarce literature on wealth and … well-being using micro-data from the German wealth survey, Panel on Household Finances - PHF, for 2010 and 2014. Using …

Private wealth is a crucial factor for the economic well-being of households. Key determinants of private wealth … include intergenerational wealth transfers (gifts and inheritances), which are gaining importance since 1990, as research … suggests. We conduct a detailed investigation of the distribution of wealth transfers in eight Euro-area countries. First, we …

The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining … net wealth that is currently on the German political agenda. We use survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …) and estimate the net wealth distribution at the very top, based on publicly available information about very rich Germans …

intergenerational wealth transfers on the net worth distribution in 8 European countries and compare it to recent findings for the US … inequality in household wealth in all 8 countries. …