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 …

identification. In Italy, banks who belong to the PattiChiari consortium have implemented policies aimed at increasing transparency … increase individuals' financial literacy and that the relationship between financial literacy and wealth is largely …

migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …

This paper investigates wage gaps between part- and full-time women workers in six OECD countries in the mid-1990s …. Using comparable micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), for Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the US …-time workers. The paper finds a part-time wage penalty among women workers in all countries, except Sweden. Other than in Sweden …

nature prevents some women from achieving their desired fertility levels. Despite a widely-documented reduction of female …

The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining … net wealth that is currently on the German political agenda. We use survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …) and estimate the net wealth distribution at the very top, based on publicly available information about very rich Germans …

The distributions of income and wealth in countries across the world are found to possess some robust and stable …

This paper focuses on three issues. First, it analyses the increasing inequality of wealth in Sweden in terms of … percentile age and birth cohort differences. Second, it discusses mobility of wealth as a function of age, length of the … wealth. …

Statistical equilibrium denotes the distribution of wealth that can be achieved in the largest number of ways while … satisfying a first moment constraint on the rate of growth in wealth portfolios. Maximizing entropy subject to a logarithmic … constraint yields a power law distribution whose characteristic exponent depends positively on the minimum wealth level, and …