and wealth inequality, and studies how they have developed. The analysis shows less wage dispersion in Spain than in other … of a decrease in expenditure on consumer durables by low-income households. Wealth inequality exceeds income inequality … and increased during the downturn as a result of financial assets outperforming real assets. Nevertheless, Spain’s wealth …

Empirical analysis of U.S. income, saving and wealth dynamics is constrained by a lack of high-quality and … Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), which captures the top of the wealth distribution by sampling from administrative records …, capital gains, and interfamily transfers in wealth change over the lifecycle and across permanent income groups …

the Netherlands in the period 1995 through 2001, we analyse the impact of wealth, savings, and debt position on job exit …Theoretical models predict a positive impact of the level of individual wealth on the job exit probability. Empirically … this prediction is most likely to be relevant for elderly workers who have accumulated wealth throughout their working life …

wealth accumulation is to finance future consumption, either their own or that of heirs. The paper concludes that the … simplest model that explains the relevant facts is one in which either consumers regard the accumulation of wealth as an end in … itself, or unspent wealth yields a flow of services (such as power or social status) which have the same practical effect on …