This paper examines patterns of housing wealth among the aged in Australia over time and compares Australian housing … wealth patterns with those in North America and Western Europe, to determine if the Australian elderly hold particularly high … levels of housing wealth, and if this leads to a relative overconsumption of housing. The paper uses data from the three most …

Private wealth is a crucial factor for the economic well-being of households. Key determinants of private wealth … include intergenerational wealth transfers (gifts and inheritances), which are gaining importance since 1990, as research … suggests. We conduct a detailed investigation of the distribution of wealth transfers in eight Euro-area countries. First, we …