The new Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) creates for the first time a harmonized cross national database on household … addressed in preparing harmonized and comparable wealth data across countries, and summarizes the initial results for the eight …

The new Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) creates for the first time a harmonized cross national database on household … in preparing harmonized and comparable wealth data across countries, and summarizes some results for the nine countries …

This paper provides a first glance at the role of income and wealth in comparing economic security of older persons in … both social insurance and public assistance; and they have very different patterns of private wealth holding. The paper is … based on a new source of wealth micro data, known as the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS).In this paper, we first develop a …

outlive their husbands and have fewer claims on pensions and retirement wealth and maintain fewer productive capacities in the … children. We assess the net effects of existing policies on poverty and low income and wealth. While best practices may be …