distribution of income and wealth within the household context. Based on unique individual-level wealth data from the German Socio … evidence for a significant gender wealth gap of about 30,000 euros in Germany, which amounts to almost 50,000 euros for married …Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of …

Do income disparities between men and women translate into longer term wealth disparities? We use the Survey of Income … and Program Participation (SIPP) to investigate gender and race disparities in home ownership, value, and equity. These … value or home equity. Once households have entered the housing market, differences across gender, race and family type are …

control for many individual/family specific attributes, such as age, gender, education, number of children, work and marital …

so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an increased demand in Australia for better-educated workers. As the twentieth …

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …

household financial assets. Our results suggest that banks information policies have the potential to be an effective tool to … increase individuals' financial literacy and that the relationship between financial literacy and wealth is largely …

combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting … for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket medical expenses, as well as financial wealth sufficient to buffer against …

We examine the socially optimal wealth distribution in a two-person two-good model with heterogeneous workers and … other (non-social) individual. We show that the interdependence can effectively counter-act the need to transfer wealth to … social interactions it can be socially desirable to keep substantial wealth inequality. …

circumstances of households. Using data drawn from the 2001 and 2002 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia …The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that household income has statistically significant but … (HILDA) Survey, this paper demonstrates that wealth, which can be viewed as providing a degree of economic security, is at …

with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany … countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain …, results from panel regression fixed effects models indicate that changes in wealth, income and consumption all produce …