We found that on average over the period from 1989 to 2007, 21 percent of American households at a given point of time 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...

Transfers from parents-either in the form of gifts or inheritances-have received much attention as a source of inequality. This paper uses a 19-year panel of administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows available to an individual (defined as the...

Erstmals in der Geschichte hat die Mittelschicht einen bedeutsamen Anteil des privaten Vermögens erworben. Doch sind Eigentum und Erbe in der Mitte der deutschen Gesellschaft relativ gleichmäßig verteilt oder zeigen sich bedeutsame Vermögensunterschiede? Um diese Frage zu beantworten, wird...