The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about house-hold wealth (real and financial … framework for our analysis is the "Guidelines for Micro Statistics on Household Wealth" from the OECD (2013). We have two main … via weighting and imputation as well as further points which might restrict cross-country comparability of net wealth. We …

remain. This is particularly true for the distribution of net wealth which is of special importance for the well-being of … individuals. Wealth provides utility in a number of ways, for instance, by acting as a buffer against negative income shocks …. Using the wealth component of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find that, on average, members of western …

their wealth ownership. Using data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), we document a positive average … migrant wealth gap between migrant and native households. However, the raw gap is almost negligible for second generation … migrant households, whereas it rises across the unconditional net wealth distribution for first generation migrant households …

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 …