Matching ; Survey of Consumer Finances ; Annual Demographic Supplement ; Distribution of Income and Wealth …

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 …

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 …

I find here that the early 2000s witnessed both exploding debt and the middle-class squeeze. While median wealth grew … as during the previous two decades. The racial and ethnic disparity in wealth holdings, after stabilizing during most of … the 1990s, widened in the years between 1998 and 2001, but then narrowed during the early 2000s. Wealth also shifted in …

measure to account for one such determinant: household wealth. We then analyze the level and distribution of economic well … in that income from wealth is calculated as the sum of lifetime annuity from nonhome wealth and imputed rental … altered when money income is adjusted for wealth. Over the 1989-2000 period, median wellbeing appears to increase faster when …