This paper produces new evidence and stylised facts on housing, wealth accumulation and wealth distribution, relying on … an in-depth analysis of micro-based data on household wealth across OECD countries. The analysis addresses several …-economic characteristics such as income, wealth and age? What is the weight of housing in households’ balance sheets and how does this vary …

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 …

of wealth inequality, which can be performed by carefully adapting the techniques used in the case of income … distributions. The paper focuses on the measurement of inequality itself and includes an application to European data on wealth. We …, grounding their use in socio-economic theory and highlighting the connections between them. In particular, we investigate how …

) recommend to consider income, consumption and wealth and to give more prominence to their joint distribution. New household … surveys as those developed as part of the Luxembourg Wealth Study and the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Network … introduced into the EUROMOD simulations such as wealth taxation, incentives for wealth accumulation and asset tests determining …

We analyze the top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, and Spain based on the first and second wave of … the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be underrepresented in household … countries. As a result, the top percentile share of household wealth in Germany jumps up from 24 percent to 31 percent in the …

Taxing wealth has received increased attention in both the academic and political debate, as a way to reduce inequality … of both income and wealth. However, analytical tools are still underdeveloped when it comes to empirical analyses of … different types of wealth-related taxes and policies. New household surveys as those developed as part of the Eurosystem …