The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata …-data-collection stage may interfere considerably with the substantive research question. Looking at wealth data from the German SOEP, this … analysis affects wealth distribution and inequality analysis. Obviously, when measured in "per capita household" terms, wealth …

is well established. Extending these investigations to other outcomes such as wealth up till now has been limited due to … lack of individual-level data. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) we find a significant "raw" gender wealth gap … especially true at the bottom and at the top of the wealth distribution, which we show using semi-parametric decomposition …

Social security entitlements are a substantial source of wealth that grows in importance over the individual …'s lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses … German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), a population representative panel study, with information on social security wealth from …

information on net worth with social security wealth (SSW) information from the administrative records. The unique properties of … include SSW in a wealth inequality analysis. Despite its quantitative relevance, SSW is thus far omitted from such analyses …