Recognizing the importance of household wealth in the overall financial wellbeing of Canadians and the relative … examination of the outcomes of household wealth accumulation is performed through assessing the aggregate levels of wealth, the … quality of the household wealth position, and exploration of households’ views on the importance and purpose of wealth …

Australian household wealth has increased in recent years, despite higher debt levels. In other words, the value of … household assets has risen substantially more than household debt. The higher debt levels partly reflect the benefits of low … inflation in contributing to improved housing affordability and access to finance. Household debt increases do not appear to …

The role of households in the non market production and the importance of the household production has come topical in … the last few years as a result of studies on the measurement of economic well-being of society. Non-market household … production covers the goods and services household members produce for their own consumption by combining their unpaid labour and …

In this paper, we argue that shadow activities and different levels of marketization of household production … systematically distort international comparisons of aggregate gross household saving rates (HSRs): Higher shares of hidden income …

One suggested hypothesis for the dramatic rise in household borrowing that preceded the financial crisis is that low … households. Using household level data on debt accumulation during 2001-2012, we show that low-income households in high …

The paper investigates the interdependence of household financial liabilities and assets, with special focus on the … impact of liabilities on households’ holdings of financial assets. The paper uses the new ECB Household Finance and …’ financial liabilities and assets, taking account of endogeneity and selection bias. The results indicate that higher household …

studies treat household liabilities as negative assets and relate households’ decisions to their net wealth. However, the … components of net wealth, i.e. financial liabilities, financial assets and real assets are very heterogeneous across households …. The assumption of similar consumption behaviour among households with the same net wealth but different wealth components …

One suggested hypothesis for the dramatic rise in household borrowing that preceded the financial crisis is that low …-income households. Using household level data on debt accumulation during 2001-2012, we show that low-income households in high …

During the crisis period from 2008 to 2013 household disposable income deteriorated significantly in Central, Eastern …