While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … and for a detailed decomposition of net wealth inequality into a variety of circumstances; among them childhood background … that about 62% of the inequality in net wealth is due to circumstances. The most important circumstances are …

the top end of the wealth distribution in Germany. The SOEP-P population has about 21 times higher net wealth on average …

Research on wealth inequality usually focuses on real and financial assets, while pension wealth – the present value of … and, thus, should be accounted for in peoples’ wealth portfolios. Using novel data from the Socio Economic Panel (SOEP …), we show the incidence, relevance, and distribution of individual pension wealth, net worth, and augmented wealth (the sum …

We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account … datasets where information on wealth as well as on pension entitlements is collected at the individual level. Pension wealth … data is available for 2012 only. Individual level wealth data allows to analyze the gender wealth gap between women and men …

We provide levels of, compositions of, and inequalities in household augmented wealth - defined as the sum of net worth … and pension wealth - for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of … household wealth: about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. The higher share in Germany narrows the wealth gap between …

novel survey data from the top of the wealth distribution, which have been added to the 2019 German Socio-economic Panel … Study. The data include private wealth balance sheets, in particular the value of own private business assets, and a … share of their wealth in their own businesses when they are more willing to take risks. These associations are stronger …

Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and …

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. …