The wealth distribution in the U.S. is more unequal than either the income or earnings distribution, a fact current … spirit', I construct and simulate a model where individuals accumulate wealth for its own sake rather than as deferred … skewness of wealth consistent with that observed in the U.S. economy. Furthermore, capitalist-spirit preferences provide a way …

English couple households born in the 1940s. Here, 'optimal' wealth holdings are those that allow households to enjoy the same … calculate this level of wealth, and compare that with how much wealth households are observed to hold. We find that the majority … of households hold more wealth than our model suggests is optimal and that this would still be true even if housing …

on wealth and lifetime earnings we evaluate measures of retirement preparedness. We estimate heterogeneous discount … have access only to a risk‐free asset compared to when we account for the fact that much of their wealth is stored in …

Using new long-run microdata, this paper studies wealth and income trends of college and noncollege households in the … United States since 1956. We document the emergence of a substantial college wealth premium since the 1980s, which is … considerably larger than the college income premium. Over the past four decades, the wealth of American households with a …

recession, resulting in a substantial rise in unemployment, and income and wealth inequality. This paper uses longitudinal data … from the Survey of Household Finances over the period 2002 to 2014 to examine the distributions of income and wealth in … both income and wealth following the sharp decline in house prices that occurred since 2008, with house price fluctuations …

If Piketty's main theoretical prediction (r>g leads to rising wealth inequality) is taken to its radical conclusion …, then a small elite will own all wealth if capitalism is left to its own devices. We formulate and calibrate a Post …-Keynesian model with an endogenous distribution of wealth between workers and capitalists which permits such a corner solution of all …

This paper estimates rates of return across the gross wealth distribution in eight European countries. Like … differential saving rates, differential rates of return matter for Post Keynesian theory, because they impact the income and wealth … wealth differentiates between three socioeconomic groups: 30% are asset-poor, 65% are middle-class home owners, and the top 5 …

the change in wealth over the period. The goal of this paper is to examine the advantages and difficulties of using this … on income and wealth to other administrative data with information on financial and real estate transactions. Using this …

Globalisation has a major impact on the levels and distribution of wealth. The financial markets are highly integrated … wealth over the past 25 years. Nonetheless, this has not led to an equally large increase in property income because the … decrease in rates of return seems to contradict claims that, due to an increase in both financial and inherited wealth, we are …