twentieth century for the US, Japan, UK, Germany and France, and a shorter sample covering the last third of the twentieth …

received a wealth transfer and these accounted for 23 percent of their net worth. Over the lifetime, about 30 percent of … households could expect to receive a wealth transfer and these would account for close to 40 percent of their net worth near time … reporting a wealth transfer fell by 2.5 percentage points. The average value of inheritances received among all households did …

We study taxable wealth in unique Swedish administrative data, annually following a large sample of households over a … period of almost 40 years. The main data limitation is non-observability of wealth for those below the tax exemption level …. This implies that much of the focus of the paper is on the rich, since we are confined to those whose wealth becomes …

, Germany and Italy. The results show that, in all three countries, a sizeable wealth gap exists between natives and immigrants …This paper analyses the existence of an immigrant/native wealth gap by using household survey data for Luxembourg …. Towards the upper tail of the wealth distribution the gap narrows to a small extent. This gap persists even after controlling …

approach is the parameterisation of the information content regarding future income changes. In addition to the information … regarding time series properties of the historical development of labour income, consumers have also period-specific information … on future income realisations. Estimation results support the hypothesis that, although front-loaded, consumers have a …