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 …

the relationship with wealth at death, on the form of the bequest, and on the different causes to which people bequeath …. -- charitable donations ; bequests ; wealth ; death ; estate tax ; NGOs …

-child correlation is basically unchanged if we control for grandparents' wealth. Bequests and gifts strikingly account for at least 50 …This study estimates intergenerational correlations in mid-life wealth across three generations, and a young fourth … on parents' wealth, grandparents' wealth is weakly positively associated with grandchild's wealth and the parent …

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 …

. We reject the inheritance pooling hypothesis, in favour of the intrahousehold approach. Our results suggest that females … decrease their labor force participation by 5.3 percentage points if they have received an unexpected inheritance since the … on the inheritance pooling hypothesis, a pure unitary perspective, may be biased downwards. …

Inflows; this is true across the distribution of Total Inflows, as well as at all levels of net wealth. Gifts and inheritances …Transfers from parents - either in the form of gifts or inheritances - have received much attention as a source of … as the capitalized sum of net labor income, government transfers, and gifts and inheritances received over the period …

international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth …The economic crisis of 2008/9 was felt more acutely in Ireland relative to elsewhere and culminated in the … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about …

8,500 people aged 50 and over and living in Ireland were interviewed on a wide range of topics covering socioeconomic … 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 …

-retirement couples and their level of wealth and financial stress using TILDA data for Ireland. We find that joint financial literacy is …Financial literacy is higher for men than for women and high financial literacy has been linked to higher wealth and … more highly correlated with household wealth, particularly real estate, than the financial literacy of individual members …

Using data on the valuation of Christmas gifts received by students in different fields at a German university, we … significant lower WTP and WTA, indicating that existing studies on the efficiency loss of holiday gifts and experimental studies …