.g., self-employment, no migration background, inheritances, high income) that decrease the wealth gap for women increase it for …While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the … distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio …

.g., self-employment, no migration background, inheritances, high income) that decrease the wealth gap for women increase it for …While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the … distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German socio …

.g. self-employment, no migration background, inheritances, high income) that decrease the wealth gap for women increase it for … has the last word in financial decisions. -- wealth gap ; wealth inequality ; intra-household allocation ; gender …While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the …

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income … profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households …’ participation decisions in assets are more responsive to income than older households. Family structure plays a significant role in …

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income … profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households …' participation decisions in assets are more responsive to income than older households. Family structure plays a significant role in …

in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that … the association between household wealth portfolios at the intensive margin (the level of assets) and household …-country differences in asset and debt levels, except for housing wealth, which displays large unexplained differences for both the under …

.g., self-employment, no migration background, inheritances, high income) that decrease the wealth gap for women increase it for …While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the … distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio …

Equivalence scales are often used to adjust household income for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For … example, a family of two is assumed to need more income than a single person, but not double due to economies of scale in … those implied by the ‘square root of household size’ equivalence scale. Our results have important implications when …