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Is the top tail of the wealth distribution the missing link between the Household Finance and Consumption Survey and national accounts?
Chakraborty, Robin; Kavonius, Ilja Kristian; … - 2018
The financial accounts of the household sector within the system of national accounts report the aggregate asset holdings and liabilities of all households within a country. In principle, when household wealth surveys are explicitly designed to be representative of all households, aggregating...
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On the estimation of distributional household wealth : addressing under-reporting via optimization problems with invariant Gini coefficient
Engel, Janina; Ohlwerter, Dennis; Scherer, Matthias - 2023
The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides valuable information for the monetary policy and financial … stability purposes. The dataset shows, however, inconsistencies with National Account (NtlA) statistics, as the aggregated HFCS … wealth discrepancies across the households. Finally, based on the German HFCS, we compare the findings with another approach …
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Is the Top Tail of the Wealth Distribution the Missing Link Between the Household Finance and Consumption Survey and National Accounts?
Chakraborty, Robin; Kavonius, Ilja Kristian; … - 2021
The financial accounts of the household sector within the system of national accounts report the aggregate asset holdings and liabilities of all households within a country. In principle, when household wealth surveys are explicitly designed to be representative of all households, aggregating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315397
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A different perspective on the evolution of UK income inequality
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Jenkins, Stephen - 2018
The socio-economic mosaic of urban neighbourhoods changes under the influence of three distinctive distributional processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between neighbourhoods; and an overall growth or decline in income levels...
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Tossed and Turned : Wealth Dynamics of U.S. Households 2007-2009
Kennickell, Arthur B. - 2011
For many years, the cross-sectional Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) has shown relatively weak or inconsistent changes in the shape of the distribution of net worth, despite many shifts in income and other economic factors. In 2009, households that had taken part in the 2007 SCF were...
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The Dynamics of Household Income and Wealth : Results from the Panel of the Spanish Survey of Household Finances (EFF) 2002-2005
Bover, Olympia - 2008
The EFF collects detailed information on household assets, debts, income, consumption, and demographic variables. One important characteristic of this survey is that it oversamples high-wealth households. Another important characteristic of the EFF is that the second wave has a full panel...
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Inequalities in household wealth across OECD countries : evidence from the OECD wealth distribution database
Balestra, Carlotta; Tonkin, Richard - 2018
This paper describes how household wealth is distributed in 28 OECD countries, based on evidence from the second wave of the OECD Wealth Distribution Database. A number of general patterns emerge from these data. First, wealth concentration is twice the level of income inequality: across the 28...
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What can we learn about household consumption expenditure from data on income and assets?
Eika, Lasse; Mogstad, Magne; Vestad, Ola Lotherington - 2020
A major difficulty faced by researchers who want to study the consumption and savings behavior of households is the lack of reliable panel data on household expenditures. One possibility is to use surveys that follow the same households over time, but such data are rare and they typically have...
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Measuring the joint distribution of household income, consumption and wealth at the micro level
Balestra, Carlotta - 2023
This paper provides an overview of the work of the Expert Group on the Joint Distribution of Income, Consumption and 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,...
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Why wealth inequality differs between post-socialist countries?
Brzezinski, Michal; Sałach, Katarzyna - 2020
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