fraction of their income. The major difficulty in empirically assessing the relationship between incomes and saving rates is to … construct a credible proxy for long-run income - purged of transitory fluctuations and measurement error. The Canadian Family … reliable long-run income proxies. Our empirical analysis suggests that the estimated relationship between saving rates and long …

income measures (such as after-tax income) in both 1999 and 2005. The median household's economic well-being was lower in …

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 …

law, the transfer tax system, the income distribution, and the welfare state. We also estimate models with family fixed …. The empirical estimates show that bequests are not used to compensate for income differences between children, suggesting …

It is a well-known criticism that due to its exponential distribution, survey data on wealth is hardly reliable when it … the number of households possessing a net wealth greater than four million Euros as well as their aggregate wealth … suggest that the alleged non-observation bias is considerable, accounting for about one quarter of total net wealth. The …

Although people's perception of (income or wealth) inequality has important e_ects on their decisions as economic … that is based on the assumption that people typically do not observe the entire income (wealth) distribution and that their … will change along positions in the income distribution and that for a speci_c position various dimensions of inequality …

retrieved from the Survey of Household Income and Wealth published by the Bank of Italy. The empirical analysis confirms both …-depressing effects of raising inequality via debt and wealth-based consumption. Likewise, it is argued that decreasing personal income …This paper develops a stylized short-run neo-Kaleckian model incorporating personal income inequality and income taxes …