Given differences in public saving programs between Sweden and the United States, an examination of household private … 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 …

wealth transfers tend to be equalizing in terms of the distribution of household wealth. Indeed, the addition of wealth … transfers to other sources of household wealth has had a sizeable effect on reducing the inequality of wealth. … received a wealth transfer and these accounted for 23 percent of their net worth. Over the lifetime, about 30 percent of …

As significant part of national wealth, households' wealth is the central issue in both policy debate and academic … literature. Nevertheless, in Hungary little effort has been made so far to conduct thorough evaluation of households' wealth for … evaluation of Hungarian wealth and connects the development of wealth elements to economic events. Doing so, as a by-product, we …

This paper provides a descriptive analysis of wealth ownership and wealth inequality in Latin American countries, using …, land, and financial assets, and find very high wealth concentration in all these types of assets, with the partial … exception home ownership. The relevance of informal assets and the historical patterns of wealth accumulation and concentration …

This study examines from a cross-national perspective the importance of inheritance as a source of private wealth … inheriting households own considerably more wealth than non-inheriting households, all other things equal. The wealth gap between … households who received lifetime gifts or bequests and those who did not varies hugely along the distribution of net wealth. At …

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

household financial assets. Our results suggest that banks information policies have the potential to be an effective tool to … increase individuals' financial literacy and that the relationship between financial literacy and wealth is largely …

combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting … for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket medical expenses, as well as financial wealth sufficient to buffer against …