This paper argues that an increase in the inequality of wealth prompts a stronger quest for status that in turn fosters the accumulation of wealth. It proposes a measure for an individual's want of social status. For a given level of a population's wealth, the corresponding aggregate measure of...

Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this...

Social security entitlements are a substantial source of wealth that grows in importance over the individual's lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses. In Germany, it is the lack of adequate micro data that...

This paper argues that an increase in the inequality of wealth prompts a stronger quest for status that in turn fosters the accumulation of wealth. It proposes a measure for an individual's want of social status. For a given level of a population?s wealth, the corresponding aggregate measure of...

This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...

Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this...

Häufig fokussieren Verteilungsanalysen entweder auf Einkommen oder Vermögen. Ein umfassendes Bild des materiellen Wohlstands der Haushalte ergibt sich erst durch eine kombinierte Betrachtung beider Größen. Die vorliegende Analyse ermittelt daher, wie sich das Einkommen der Haushalte und ihre...

In der öffentlichen Debatte herrscht die Einschätzung vor, dass die Ungleichheit der Einkommen und des Vermögens in Deutschland und in Europa in den letzten Jahren stark zugenommen hat. Geht die Schere zwischen Arm und Reich wirklich weiter auseinander, oder ist die wachsende Ungleichheit ein...