We provide levels of, compositions of, and inequalities in household augmented wealth - defined as the sum of net worth … and pension wealth - for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of … household wealth: about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. The higher share in Germany narrows the wealth gap between …

. Investment is negatively affected by private wealth in the USA and the UK, but positively in France and Germany. … changes in income distribution and in private wealth on consumption and investment covering a period from as early as 1855 … until 2010 for the UK, France, Germany and USA, based on the dataset of Piketty and Zucman (2014). We contribute to the post …

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

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 individual level. It is only since recently that data about wealth (what people possess) is available and the links … between wealth and SWB are studied since about a decade. These results show an unambiguous positive link between wealth and … SWB. In most cases, wealth is more important than income from the perspective of SWB. Theoretical and empirical reasons …