wealth might therefore exacerbate the consequences of labor market inequality. … 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 …

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 …

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …

income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable household-level survey data. We focus on the dependence … index appears primarily driven by differences in inequality in the wealth distribution. …This paper considers a parametric model for the joint distribution of income and wealth. The model is used to analyze …

We analyze the consumption and wealth inequality in an OLG model with mandatory pension systems. Our framework features … consumption inequality and wealth inequality. Second, a pension system reform from a defined benefit to a defined contribution … works to reinforce consumption inequality and reduce wealth inequality. Third, minimum pension benefits are able to …

While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … and for a detailed decomposition of net wealth inequality into a variety of circumstances; among them childhood background … that about 62% of the inequality in net wealth is due to circumstances. The most important circumstances are …

Since the late twentieth century there has been a growing interest in academic and political circles on inequality. In … research about Inequality since the 1950s; (ii) the development of a new method of analysis that combines (ii-a) a quantitative …

This paper investigates the relationship between the capital share in national income and personal income inequality … Wealth and Income Database, we find strong long-run links between the aggregate role of capital in the economy and the size … income shares with a broader measure of inequality (Gini coefficient), the positive relationship re-mains but becomes …

trait, beauty, to infer the extent to which parents' physical characteristics transmit inequality across generations …