analysis is done at the regional level and presents results on household assets, liabilities, net wealth, income and …

Recognizing the importance of household wealth in the overall financial wellbeing of Canadians and the relative … scarcity of the public policy dialogue that is centered unequivocally on wealth, this paper aims to critically examine … households’ wealth position, their attitudes to the accumulation of wealth and practices utilized for that purpose. Measured as …

This letter revisits the question of how wealth shocks influence retirement behaviour, exploiting the dramatic changes … in UK asset prices between 2008 and 2009 as a source of such shocks. We find no evidence that the wealth shocks arising …

Australian household wealth has increased in recent years, despite higher debt levels. In other words, the value of …

estimate the effect of wealth shocks on household consumption and individual expectations of the future. Many household … experienced a significant wealth shocks, but these shocks led to modest spending effects and small revisions to expectations … regarding future bequests. Expectations of bequests seem particularly tied to housing wealth. …

We analyse the distribution of household wealth in Spain using the first wave of the Spanish Survey of Household … Finances, conducted by the Bank of Spain in 2002. We study the distribution of the different wealth components and, using … inequality decomposition techniques, we assess the contribution of each element to overall wealth inequality. We find that wealth …

We analyse the distribution of household wealth in Spain using the first wave of the Spanish Survey of Household … Finances, conducted by the Bank of Spain in 2002. We study the distribution of the different wealth components and, using … inequality decomposition techniques, we assess the contribution of each element to overall wealth inequality. We find that wealth …

findings. The estimated average (median) total net wealth of Luxembourg households is about EUR 733,000 (EUR 403,000) - an … real estate in Luxembourg. Average total gross income and total net wealth generally increase with household size, with age … not seem to differ significantly. This cannot be said for total net wealth and net real wealth, which, on average, is more …

a household's accumulated stock of wealth and current annual household income. The data come from the 2004 edition of …

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the approaches to poverty based on income and wealth that have been … proposed in the literature. Two types of approaches are considered: those that look at income and wealth separately when … argue that the higher correlation between income and wealth in the United States contributes to explaining the greater …