Retirement wealth is often viewed as a great equalizer, offsetting the inequality in standard household net worth. One … Board's Survey of Consumer Finances, I find that retirement wealth (the sum of pension and Social Security wealth) had a … considerably weaker offsetting effect on wealth inequality in 2001 than in 1983. Whereas standard net worth inequality increased …

both individual survey data on wealth holdings and administrative data on earnings histories from the UK to examine this … question. We find evidence of a positive relationship between saving rates (and wealth accumulation) and levels of permanent … the US, but somewhat at odds with evidence from the UK which has examined retirement wealth and lifetime earnings in the …

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 …

equalized. This article contributes to the discussion by studying the determinants of retirement wealth across a range of … ethnicities, including White, Pasifika and Asian. Differences in retirement wealth between ethnic groups is relatively unexplored … economic factors are the main determinants of retirement wealth. Gender and ethnicity are found to be a strong predictor of …