other sources, this paper presents seven economic facts about the racial wealth gap in the U.S. We present data on racial … between Black households and White households. While none of the economic factors listed fully explains the racial wealth gap …, each factor, along with a history of racism and discrimination has contributed to the extreme wealth inequality in America …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …

particular interest to economists, namely income and wealth and (b) to discuss issues in relation to their use, in particular … with respect to missing data. We describe how the income and wealth data were collected. We assess the quality of the … consider the relationship between income/wealth and life satisfaction, another variable captured in TILDA. We find that income …

) that tracks the same individuals over time to assess how individuals from different income and wealth groups respond to … life and financial shocks with respect to volunteering. Although both income and wealth can act as buffers against life …

, income and welfare state policies in explaining differences in household net wealth within and between euro area countries … these households have considerably higher net wealth than those which did not inherit. Second, regression analyses on … households' relative wealth position show that, on average, having received an inheritance lifts a household by about 14 net …

This article aims at linking the household wealth and income distributions for 15 European countries using the … determining its location in the wealth distribution. A generalized ordered probit model is estimated to explain the role played by … the position in the income distribution and by intergenerational transfers on the probability to be in a given wealth …

This article aims at linking the household wealth and income distributions for 15 European countries using the … determining its location in the wealth distribution. A generalized ordered probit model is estimated to explain the role played by … the position in the income distribution and by intergenerational transfers on the probability to be in a given wealth …

In the Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) conducted by the Bank of Italy, the flow variables (income and … consumption) refer to the year preceding the interview while the stock variables (household composition and net wealth) refer to … estimates of household income and wealth and propose an adjustment method …