Although long-distance migration can be very beneficial, some families may have too little wealth (or liquidity) to … (NLSY79) to assess whether wealth holdings directly influence migration decisions in the U.S. I focus on long …. Contrary to a liquidity constraint story, I find consistently that plenty of people with low and even negative wealth move, and …

their wealth ownership. Using data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), we document a positive average … migrant wealth gap between migrant and native households. However, the raw gap is almost negligible for second generation … migrant households, whereas it rises across the unconditional net wealth distribution for first generation migrant households …

of total household financial wealth. Sample surveys are a useful source of information on household wealth. Yet, survey … estimates are affected by non-sampling errors. In particular, in the case of household wealth, unit non-response and measurement … error can severely bias the estimates. Using the Italian Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW), we exploit the …

important characteristic of this survey is that it oversamples high-wealth households. Another important characteristic of the … the changes in income, asset holdings, and wealth of Spanish households between the end of 2002 and 2005 …