Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
in pension wealth from 2001 to 2009. Retirement wealth is also found to offset the inequality in standard household net … worth. However, I find that pensions had a weaker offsetting effect on wealth inequality in 2007 than in 1989. As a result …, whereas standard net worth inequality showed little change from 1989 to 2007, the inequality of private augmented wealth (the …