they have very different patterns of private wealth holding. Using the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) which contains … harmonized wealth micro-datasets from a number of industrialized countries, we analyze the income and wealth packages of older … women's households, across these five countries. Our primary focus is on wealth, including both financial and non …

This paper examines the effect of wealth on labour market behaviour. Providing convincing evidence on this relationship … is challenging since wealth and labour supply may be endogenously determined. We overcome this by looking at wealth … theoretical framework which outlines how an individual's labour market behaviour may be expected to react to a wealth shock under …

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 …

the top end of the wealth distribution in Germany. The SOEP-P population has about 21 times higher net wealth on average …

In this empirical paper we analyze the link between homeownership across cohorts and the net wealth distribution. In … particular we are interested in the effect of the pattern of ownership across cohorts. Given that wealth accumulates over the … cohorts, should be related to current wealth levels and inequality. In order to gauge the effect of the ownership structure …

Wealth in addition to income determines to a large degree an individual’s consumption opportunities and economic … satisfaction as an indicator of subjective well being and households’ wealth. We contribute to the scarce literature on wealth and … well-being using micro-data from the German wealth survey, Panel on Household Finances - PHF, for 2010 and 2014. Using …