Given differences in public saving programs between Sweden and the United States, an examination of household private … wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …

remain. This is particularly true for the distribution of net wealth which is of special importance for the well-being of … individuals. Wealth provides utility in a number of ways, for instance, by acting as a buffer against negative income shocks …. Using the wealth component of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find that, on average, members of western …

The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about household wealth (real and financial …

This paper focuses on household wealth dynamics in the Czech Republic. We estimate benchmark levels of household …

inequality in household wealth in all 8 countries. …We use data from the European Household Finance and Consumption Survey in order to examine the distributional effect of … intergenerational wealth transfers on the net worth distribution in 8 European countries and compare it to recent findings for the US …