kink allows me to identify how UI affect the use of private wealth to finance consumption during unemployment spells. Using … lacks buffer savings. This is further emphasized for different subpopulations. Women, couples, and older individuals holds … significantly larger liquid wealth than men and young singles. …

between initial wealth and entrepreneurship. However, in a recent paper Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher order of … polynomials in wealth and find that there is no relationship between household initial wealth and the probability of starting an … own business throughout most of the wealth distribution in the United States. In this paper we examine this relationship …

wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …. In addition to less inequality and a higher median wealth, we also show that wealth quintile mobility in the 1990's has …

Retirement wealth is often viewed as a great equalizer, offsetting the inequality in standard household net worth. One … Board's Survey of Consumer Finances, I find that retirement wealth (the sum of pension and Social Security wealth) had a … considerably weaker offsetting effect on wealth inequality in 2001 than in 1983. Whereas standard net worth inequality increased …

percent replacement rates, respectively. Moreover, retirement wealth is very unevenly distributed. Whites and married couples … had substantially larger wealth accumulations than their respective counterparts. …

life expectancy related to observable factors such as income, gender, and health have large effects on savings, and that …

actual wealth, with the target determined by credit conditions and uncertainty. An estimated structural version of the model … suggests that increased credit availability accounts for most of the long-term saving decline, while fluctuations in wealth and …