We study taxable wealth in unique Swedish administrative data, annually following a large sample of households over a … period of almost 40 years. The main data limitation is non-observability of wealth for those below the tax exemption level …. This implies that much of the focus of the paper is on the rich, since we are confined to those whose wealth becomes …

. Distributional information on households’ wealth is availablefrom the Household Finance and Consumption Survey only for three points … quarterly distributional national wealth by (i) improving the alignment of surveyfieldwork periods with the national accounts … series; and (v)computing euro area aggregates. This paper finds an increase in the net wealth Gini of mosteuro area countries …

This article aims at linking the household wealth and income distributions for 15 European countries using the … determining its location in the wealth distribution. A generalized ordered probit model is estimated to explain the role played by … the position in the income distribution and by intergenerational transfers on the probability to be in a given wealth …

evidence that wealth is heavily concentrated at the upper tail of the wealth distribution. A commonly cited number for the US … is that 1 percent of the households hold 30 percent of total household wealth. I investigate the reliability of upper … tail wealth estimates from household wealth surveys in the presence of survey differential non-response, i.e. the fact that …

wealth across euro area countries that await explanation. This paper focuses on three main factors for the wealth … three factors, in addition to the common household and demographic factors, are relevant for the net wealth accumulation … particular in homeownership rates and house price dynamics, are important for explaining wealth differences across euro area …

Crossing borders, be it international or regional, often go together with price, wage or indeed wealth discontinuities …. This paper identifies substantial wealth differences between Luxembourg resident households and cross-border commuter … households despite their similar incomes. The average (median) net wealth difference is estimated to be €367,000 (€129,000) and …

This paper analyses the existence of an immigrant/native wealth gap by using household survey data for Luxembourg …, Germany and Italy. The results show that, in all three countries, a sizeable wealth gap exists between natives and immigrants …. Towards the upper tail of the wealth distribution the gap narrows to a small extent. This gap persists even after controlling …

received a wealth transfer and these accounted for 23 percent of their net worth. Over the lifetime, about 30 percent of … households could expect to receive a wealth transfer and these would account for close to 40 percent of their net worth near time … reporting a wealth transfer fell by 2.5 percentage points. The average value of inheritances received among all households did …

This paper studies the heterogeneity of the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth using French household surveys …. We find decreasing marginal propensity to consume out of wealth across the wealth distribution for all net wealth … assets, except in the top of the wealth distribution. Consumption is less sensitive to the value of the main residence than …

, income and welfare state policies in explaining differences in household net wealth within and between euro area countries … these households have considerably higher net wealth than those which did not inherit. Second, regression analyses on … households' relative wealth position show that, on average, having received an inheritance lifts a household by about 14 net …