both individual survey data on wealth holdings and administrative data on earnings histories from the UK to examine this … question. We find evidence of a positive relationship between saving rates (and wealth accumulation) and levels of permanent … the US, but somewhat at odds with evidence from the UK which has examined retirement wealth and lifetime earnings in the …

the sum of inheritance received between 1996-2004 contributed to the observed trends in wealth accumulation and wealth … significant inheritors started with low initial wealth (and this was true within each age group). Inheritance in the period …In this paper we examine how the distribution of wealth has been changing in UK over the period 1995 to 2005 and how …

We study how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of inherited wealth in … inherited wealth could be one explanation behind the relatively marginalized role of inheritance taxation in developed economies … aggregate importance of inherited wealth and its link to inequality of opportunity significantly increases the support for …

affected by inheritance distribution. The relative attraction derived from inherited wealth and acquired human capital in …As the importance of capital is resurging in rich countries, the dynamics of wealth inequality are being increasingly …, covering both labor income and inheritance. This paper studies the concentration and substitutability of these two traits in …