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 …

/2. Based on their current account balances, income, saving, and investment behavior, three in four workers in our sample are …

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. …

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 …

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. …

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 …

persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …

in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data …; as are girls from low income families compared to middle and high income families. We use another data set to show that … who is diagnosed with an eating disorder is in accord with popular beliefs, suggesting that African American and low-income …

. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …