wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …. In addition to less inequality and a higher median wealth, we also show that wealth quintile mobility in the 1990's has …

We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization … until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evidence from estate- and wealth tax data, estimates of … foreign and domestic family firm-wealth and of pension and social security wealth. We find that the Swedish wealth …

We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the begin-ning of industrialization … until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evi-dence from estate- and wealth tax data, estimates of … foreign and domestic family firm-wealth and of pension and social security wealth. We find that the Swedish wealth …

Why do the children of wealthy parents accumulate more wealth than children from poorer backgrounds? Does parental … wealth have a role in determining young people's earnings, saving choices, returns to wealth and access to homeownership? How … much wealth do parents give directly to their children? What other channels are involved in the persistence of wealth from …

Housing is the single most important component of personal wealth in most countries. The special characteristics of … housing markets are therefore key to understanding personal portfolios, saving, the household distribution of wealth, and the … consumption of housing as a component of personal wealth. The impacts of rates of home ownership, credit market characteristics …

The aim of this paper is to examine the concentration of wealth among the group of top wealth holders, defined as those … with wealth in excess of a high cut off. The paper begins by considering the definition of this cut off, analogous to the …, wealth tax data, and investment income tax data. It starts off from the world’s billionaires in 2006, but is particularly …

Do income disparities between men and women translate into longer term wealth disparities? We use the Survey of Income …

This paper analyzes the sources of disparities in the relative wealth position of Mexican Americans. Results reveal … that wealth gaps are in large part not the result of differences in conditional expected wealth functions. Similarly … more of Mexican Americans? wealth disadvantage is attributable to the fact that these families have more young children and …

SIPP data are used to analyze the wealth of the U.S. foreign-born population. We find that the median wealth level of U ….S.-born couples is 2.3 times the median of foreign-born couples, while the median wealth level of U.S.-born singles is three times … that of foreign-born singles. Further, there is a great deal of diversity in wealth within the immigrant population …

cotton farmers were able to cope with this shock given the simultaneous boom in the cotton sector, food crop farmers had to …