the change in wealth over the period. The goal of this paper is to examine the advantages and difficulties of using this … on income and wealth to other administrative data with information on financial and real estate transactions. Using this …

-diversified, since they own relatively small amounts of financial wealth and hold a few types of financial assets. Furthermore, risky … likely to invest in financial assets as their income increases, but the share of financial assets in total wealth remains … subdued as household income increases, since at that point real estate wealth becomes dominant. Finally, we discover that …

and wealth inequality, and studies how they have developed. The analysis shows less wage dispersion in Spain than in other … of a decrease in expenditure on consumer durables by low-income households. Wealth inequality exceeds income inequality … and increased during the downturn as a result of financial assets outperforming real assets. Nevertheless, Spain’s wealth …

limits that are considered tolerable. The wealth of Greek households, as captured by the survey in 2009, was composed mainly … inheritances. With regard to net wealth, despite the lower mean relative to the euro area mean net wealth, the median household in … 2009 had net wealth close the median euro area household, a finding that was attributed to the high homeownership rate in …

We investigate wealth returns on an administrative panel containing the disaggregated balance sheets of Swedish … residents. The expected return on household net wealth increases with net worth, exceeding the risk-free rate by 9% for … households in the top 0.01%. The expected wealth return is driven by systematic risk-taking and exhibits strong persistence …

Wealth at Micro Level (EG ICW) set up by Eurostat and the OECD. It discusses the challenges of producing joint income …, consumption and wealth estimates, assesses their quality, and presents selected experimental results. Although the analysis … reveals large differences between countries, a number of general patterns emerge. First, income, consumption and wealth are …