A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in … tackling the question, researchers have had to use income as a proxy for wealth. We derive a global measure of wealth … and poverty. We find that wealth inequality reduces economic growth, but when we control for the fact that some …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …

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 …

This paper examines the effect of wealth on labour market behaviour. Providing convincing evidence on this relationship … is challenging since wealth and labour supply may be endogenously determined. We overcome this by looking at wealth … theoretical framework which outlines how an individual's labour market behaviour may be expected to react to a wealth shock under …

, we combine historical data on province-level famine exposure with contemporary data on individual wealth. To better … effect on the contemporary wealth of individuals born during this period. Together, the evidence suggests that the famine had … an adverse effect on wealth, and it is even present among the wealthiest cohort of individuals in present-day China. …

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 …

reasons, rural- to-urban migrants are less likely to own housing units in cities and as a result accumulate less wealth. Our … rural hukou owns 310 thousand yuan less housing wealth and 213 thousand yuan less total wealth than comparable household …

We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel … information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information … contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk. The …