The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about household wealth (real and financial …

The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about house-hold wealth (real and financial … framework for our analysis is the "Guidelines for Micro Statistics on Household Wealth" from the OECD (2013). We have two main … via weighting and imputation as well as further points which might restrict cross-country comparability of net wealth. We …

remain. This is particularly true for the distribution of net wealth which is of special importance for the well-being of … individuals. Wealth provides utility in a number of ways, for instance, by acting as a buffer against negative income shocks …. Using the wealth component of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find that, on average, members of western …

light on the impact of intergenerational transfers on household wealth disparities and on possible reasons for the … substantial differences in household wealth disparities among the 4 countries. Almost all of the evidence I present suggests that … intergenerational transfers have a disequalizing impact on household wealth disparities and promote the transmission of household wealth …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …

The new Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) creates for the first time a harmonized cross national database on household … in preparing harmonized and comparable wealth data across countries, and summarizes some results for the nine countries …

intergenerational wealth transfers on the net worth distribution in 8 European countries and compare it to recent findings for the US … inequality in household wealth in all 8 countries. …

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 …