Retirement wealth is often viewed as a great equalizer, offsetting the inequality in standard household net worth. One … considerably weaker offsetting effect on wealth inequality in 2001 than in 1983. Whereas standard net worth inequality increased … modestly between 1983 and 2001, the inequality of augmented wealth (the sum of retirement wealth and net worth) surged from …

household's total command over economic resources in the six years between 1999 and 2005. Although inequality in economic well …

Piketty (2017) argues in favor of a multidimensional and relational approach to the analysis of wealth inequality … countries. We discuss many potential advantages of this class typology in measuring and analyzing wealth and wealth inequality … approach by focusing on different functions of wealth. We operationalize functions of wealth by empirically analyzing the …

evolution of wealth inequality measures. Our findings suggest that expansionary monetary policy shocks lead to an increase in … wealth inequality and contributed significantly to its fluctuations. This effect is heterogenous across the wealth …We use detailed micro information at household level from the Wealth and Assets Survey to construct measures of wealth …

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

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the approaches to poverty based on income and wealth that have been … proposed in the literature. Two types of approaches are considered: those that look at income and wealth separately when … argue that the higher correlation between income and wealth in the United States contributes to explaining the greater …