.g., self-employment, no migration background, inheritances, high income) that decrease the wealth gap for women increase it for …While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the … distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio …

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this literature, we show that cohort effects exist … the association between household wealth portfolios at the intensive margin (the level of assets) and household …-country differences in asset and debt levels, except for housing wealth, which displays large unexplained differences for both the under …

the marital stability of natives. We take Italy as a case-study and we offer discrete-time event history models predicting … increasing presence of first mover migrant women (coming from Latin America and Eastern Europe) is associated with higher …

Cyprus, France, Italy and Slovenia, less than 10% of households are affluent in both income and net wealth. Investigating the …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 …

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 …

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 …

attainment independently predict household wealth in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). This relationship is partly explained … gradient in wealth.We show that individuals with lower genetic scores are more prone to reporting "extreme beliefs" (e … wealth disparities not only through education and higher earnings, but also through their impact on the ability to process …

This paper describes trends in parental wealth homogamy among union cohorts formed between 1987 and 2013 in Denmark …. Using high-quality register data on the wealth of parents during the year of partnering, we show that the correlation … between partners' levels of parental wealth is considerably lower compared to estimates from earlier research on other …

novel survey data from the top of the wealth distribution, which have been added to the 2019 German Socio-economic Panel … Study. The data include private wealth balance sheets, in particular the value of own private business assets, and a … share of their wealth in their own businesses when they are more willing to take risks. These associations are stronger …