This paper holistically addresses the effective (relative) income tax contribution of a given in-come (or, wealth … national income (or wealth) appropriated by the same income group. In turn, we develop the Fiscal Inequality Coefficient which … compares the effective percentage income tax payments of pairs of income (or wealth) groups. Using data for the US, we …

This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … leads to wealth inequalities. However, the intra-household processes appear to be efficient in terms of welfare, as … spouses' estimated indirect utility. Our results shed light on the spouses' wealth shares and the sharing rule guiding the …

to predict the evolution of a wealth distribution over time. Stochastic labour income follows a deterministic growth … interest rate implies a stationary long-run wealth distribution, a high interest rate implies non-stationary wealth … distributions.Our baseline model matches the evolution of the wealth distribution of the NLSY 79 cohort from 1986 to 2008 very well …

wealth. In addition, the savings rate strongly responds to demographic trends. Besides the direct impact of the age structure …, an indirect effect arises through the accumulation of wealth. The savings rate does not decrease with age in a monotonic …This paper investigates the relationship between wealth, ageing and saving behaviour of private households by using …

for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket medical expenses, as well as financial wealth sufficient to buffer against … different groups are exposed to economic risk. As the ESI derives from a data-independent conceptual foundation, it can be …

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 …

considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth …

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 …