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 …

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 …

analysis affects wealth distribution and inequality analysis. Obviously, when measured in "per capita household" terms, wealth … wealth holders (increasing on average by 15%) and also on aggregate wealth (plus 30%). However, with respect to inequality …The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata …

analysis affects wealth distribution and inequality analysis. Obviously, when measured in "per capita household" terms, wealth … wealth holders (increasing on average by 15%) and also on aggregate wealth (plus 30%). However, with respect to inequality …The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata …

analyze the upper edge of income and wealth distribution in Germany with data from the German Socio·Economic Panel (SOEP … wealth they have on average (intensity), and how these financial resources are distributed among the rich persons … upper edge of income and wealth distribution. For example, we find that in comparison to the average in Germany, civil …

administrative data from the German Federal Statistical Office, extended disposable income inequality is found to be significantly … lower than disposable cash income inequality at the five percent level across all years. However, the extension does not … significantly change distributional trends. At the same time, publicly provided childcare and schooling notably decrease inequality …

This paper uses the newly constructed Luxembourg Wealth Study data to document cross-country variation in homeownership … rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … inequality in the four countries correspond to their mortgage take up rates and its distribution across income, reflecting the …