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 …

) 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 …

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 …

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 …