We investigate the explanatory factors that have contributed to changing wealth levels and the gender wealth gap in … composition, and marital status on wealth accumulation. Using individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel … results show that real mean wealth levels for the working age population have been decreasing for both women and men since …

We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account … rights reduces the gender wealth gap. The data for our analysis come from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the … few surveys collecting information on wealth and pension entitlements at the individual level. Pension wealth data are …

This paper uses a matching method to provide an estimate of the nativity wealth gap among older households in Europe …. This approach does not require imposing any functional form on wealth and avoids validity-out-of-the-support assumptions …; furthermore, it allows not only the estimation of the mean of the wealth gap but also its distribution for the common …

Studying the impact of exogenous wealth shocks on health-related outcomes can help policymakers in the design and … moderate physical activity, and increases the amount spent on eating out. These results suggest that large increases in wealth …

Although it is often argued that wealth inequality matters more for economic growth than income inequality, this … timeframe. Leveraging hitherto unexploited wealth inequality data from the World Inequality Database, covering a panel of 165 … countries between 1995 and 2019, we document a negative and statistically significant relationship between wealth concentration …

(wealth) inequality levels both at the mean value and along with the distribution value. Using data from the Bank of Italy … Survey of Households Income and Wealth (SHIW)'s 2016 wave - which includes the Big Three questions, a widely used measure of …

century, with separate consideration of income and wealth. We analyse the drivers of the changes in inequality and possible …