wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …. In addition to less inequality and a higher median wealth, we also show that wealth quintile mobility in the 1990 s has …

The new Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) creates for the first time a harmonized cross national database on household … in preparing harmonized and comparable wealth data across countries, and summarizes some results for the nine countries …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …

intergenerational wealth transfers on the net worth distribution in 8 European countries and compare it to recent findings for the US … inequality in household wealth in all 8 countries. …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …

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

little has been known about them. As a result, the full extent of wealth concentration in Germany was unknown. To close the … previously it was thought to only be 59 percent. The richest percent of the population has around 35 percent of the wealth, not … million euros. These individuals do not only differ from the rest of the population in terms of wealth: They are also more …

insights into the role of country-specific shocks in shaping long-run wealth dynamics. This paper presents the first … comprehensive study of wealth and its distribution in Germany since the 19th century. We combine tax and archival data, household … surveys, historical national accounts, and rich lists to analyze the evolution of the German wealth distribution over the long …

insights into the role of country-specific shocks in shaping long-run wealth dynamics. This paper presents the first … comprehensive study of wealth and its distribution in Germany since the 19th century. We combine tax and archival data, household … surveys, historical national accounts, and rich lists to analyze the evolution of the German wealth distribution over the long …