olds, we estimate similar health gradients in income and wealth in both countries, but for 70-80 year old, we find no … evidence using a long panel of American respondents that their subsequent mortality is not related to large changes in wealth …

We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of … entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship … function of individual wealth while the introduction of start-up costs tends to flatten this relationship. The theoretical …

-conscious emotions into anger. The argument is tested with original survey data from France, Germany, and the United States. The … anti-elite rhetoric causes considerably higher expressed anger about one's financial situation in France and Germany, but …

been made in the US labour market, using a dynamic panel probit model. The estimated income effect of higher housing wealth … is virtually zero and that of financial assets wealth is positive, increasing the retirement probability. The … reinforced by wealth and earned income …

the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of … a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the role of income and wealth as dimensions of multidimensional well …-being in Germany and the US in 2007 as well as for the US over the period 1989-2007. We find distinct country differences with …

This paper investigates the relationship between wealth, ageing and saving behaviour of private households by using … pooled cross sections of German consumption survey data. Different components of wealth are distinguished, as their impact on … wealth. In addition, the savings rate strongly responds to demographic trends. Besides the direct impact of the age structure …

The rising importance of bequests as a source of personal income lead to renewed interest in the taxation of wealth … data for Germany, this paper assesses the extent to which taxable bequests are targeted to the tax code. I investigate … almost exclusively occurs for donors rather than recipients of wealth transfers. Beyond, tax planning is more prevalent for …