In the USA, the share of household wealth held by the richest 1% increased from 23.5% in 1980 to 41.8% in 2012. This … the economy. This shock can simultaneously match the increase in wealth concentration and the decrease of the saving rate …

.2. Among households age 30 to 70 with a head employed full-time, the ratio of equity assets to total wealth (net worth … plus human wealth) had a mean value of 4.2%.3. The decreases in stock market indexes between 2007 and 2009 had substantial … impacts on the wealth of only a small proportion of working households, with a mean potential loss in wealth due to stock …

asymmetry are usually considered as mutually exclusive. Using a single data set for US personal consumption, income and wealth … wealth declines can have considerable negative consumption effects in the short run, households have apparently been able, in … the longer run, to substantially increase consumption expenditure following income and wealth increases, but to keep the …

asymmetry are usually considered as mutually exclusive. Using a single data set for US personal consumption, income and wealth …

light on the impact of intergenerational transfers on household wealth disparities and on possible reasons for the … substantial differences in household wealth disparities among the 4 countries. Almost all of the evidence I present suggests that … intergenerational transfers have a disequalizing impact on household wealth disparities and promote the transmission of household wealth …

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 …

wealth and indebtedness for the Group of Seven (G7) countries and show that, even though household borrowings in Japan were …

behavior involves such variables as human wealth and income uncertainty which are not directly observable. This paper exploits …