The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about house-hold wealth (real and financial … framework for our analysis is the "Guidelines for Micro Statistics on Household Wealth" from the OECD (2013). We have two main … via weighting and imputation as well as further points which might restrict cross-country comparability of net wealth. We …

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 …

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 …

intergenerational wealth transfers on the net worth distribution in 8 European countries and compare it to recent findings for the US … inequality in household wealth in all 8 countries. …

This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini … one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices …

inequality. In high income countries, the evidence that income (wealth) does have a causal impact on health in adulthood is weak …

This paper compares changes in relative and absolute wealth concentrations to establish if both processes have followed … similar trajectories. The findings indicate that while the level of relative wealth concentration has increased recently, it … is not extraordinarily high in an historical perspective. On the contrary, the level of absolute wealth concentration is …

number of studies have explored empirically the determinants of extraordinary wealth. Using a large dataset we investigate … whether globalization and corruption affect extreme wealth accumulation. We find evidence that an increase in globalization …

Davies et al. (2008, 2011) provided the first estimates of the global distribution of wealth, using 2000 as the … learned about trends in the level and distribution of global wealth for the period 2000-14. Finally, the paper discusses the …