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 …

two decades. Theory and subsequent empirical evidence have demonstrated that income distribution has a significant impact …

This paper focuses on three issues. First, it analyses the increasing inequality of wealth in Sweden in terms of … percentile age and birth cohort differences. Second, it discusses mobility of wealth as a function of age, length of the … wealth. …

kink allows me to identify how UI affect the use of private wealth to finance consumption during unemployment spells. Using … 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 …

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 …

This paper analyses Austrian data on (financial) wealth and income. The main focus lays on the distribution of these … terms of an elasticity) of wealth and income in Austria. For the first time Austrian wealth and income data are used to … household wealth, internationally only very few attempts to compare wealth and income using decomposition methods. The analysis …

between income distribution and output, an economy that is characterized by a relatively equal distribution of wealth is …

-class squeeze.' Median wealth grew briskly in the late 1990s. It grew even faster in the aughts, while the inequality of net worth …-type assets generally remained as high in 2007 as during the previous two decades. The racial and ethnic disparity in wealth … the early and mid-aughts. Wealth also shifted in relative terms, away from young households (particularly those under age …

statistical evidences that the movements of aggregate consumption, disposable income, housing wealth and financial wealth are tied … consumer spending. Meanwhile, it is shown that the strength of the linkage between consumption and housing wealth is not …