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 … partnership) that might explain this wealth gap. We find that all factors contribute to the explanation of the wealth gap within …

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 …

In January 2006, the Dutch government implemented a pension reform that substantially reduced the public pension wealth … between private and public wealth. On the other hand, there is a group of mostly high-wage workers who participate in the tax …-facilitated Life Course Savings Scheme and who increase private savings to fully counter the impact of the drop in public wealth. A …

bequests as potential determinants of the high level of wealth concentration in the US. Analyzing the joint distribution of …. Nonetheless, concentration of labor earnings is the primary source of wealth concentration in the US. This finding reflects the … high correlation between earnings and wealth in the data, as well as the fact that earnings are a major source of income …

, earn higher portfolio returns, and ultimately accumulate higher levels of wealth later in life. Underlying these effects …' life-cycle wealth profiles. …

SIPP data are used to analyze the wealth of the U.S. foreign-born population. We find that the median wealth level of U ….S.-born couples is 2.3 times the median of foreign-born couples, while the median wealth level of U.S.-born singles is three times … that of foreign-born singles. Further, there is a great deal of diversity in wealth within the immigrant population …

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 …

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 …