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 …

Inflows; this is true across the distribution of Total Inflows, as well as at all levels of net wealth.Gifts and inheritances … mitigate wealth inequality …

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 …

This paper describes trends in parental wealth homogamy among union cohorts formed between 1987 and 2013 in Denmark …. Using high-quality register data on the wealth of parents during the year of partnering, we show that the correlation … between partners' levels of parental wealth is considerably lower compared to estimates from earlier research on other …

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 …

affects job search behavior. We look at the effect of wealth at the entry into unemployment on the exit rate from unemployment … and illiquid parts, but also to decompose each of them into assets and liabilities. The decomposition of wealth into these … four components is key to understanding how wealth affects job finding rates. In particular, we show that liquid assets …

drastically after this point. They also apply a new instrument, changes in house prices, for wealth in the entry equation, and … show that instrumented wealth is not a significant determinant of entry. We reinterpret these findings: first, we …

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 …