This paper uses new data on Swedish national wealth over a period of two hundred years to study whether the patterns in … wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to … lower wealth levels than the rest of Europe, and the main explanation is that the Swedes were too poor to save their income …

This paper uses new data on Swedish national wealth over a period of two hundred years to study whether the patterns in … wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to … lower wealth levels than the rest of Europe, and the main explanation is that the Swedes were too poor to save their income …

This study uses new data on Swedish national wealth over the last two hundred years to examine whether the patterns in … wealth-income ratios found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) extend to small and less developed economies. The findings reveal … both similarities and differences. During the industrialization era, Sweden's domestic wealth was relatively low because of …

Nearly 25 years after the German reunification, vastly different living conditions between East and West Germany still … 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 …

the top end of the wealth distribution in Germany. The SOEP-P population has about 21 times higher net wealth on average …

over cohorts on the distribution of net wealth we impose the homeownership pattern of the US on Germany and ask: What would … the net wealth distribution in Germany look like if German households were distributed across tenure status along cohorts … to the wealth distribution. Imposing the structure of the US on Germany leads to a large increase in the German median …