Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this … in cross-sections, which eliminates transitory wealth inequality due to age, yet preserves inequality arising from other … yield erroneous wealth inequality rankings of countries. …

Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this … in cross-sections, which eliminates transitory wealth inequality due to age, yet preserves inequality arising from other … yield erroneous wealth inequality rankings of countries. …

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 …

The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata …-data-collection stage may interfere considerably with the substantive research question. Looking at wealth data from the German SOEP, this … analysis affects wealth distribution and inequality analysis. Obviously, when measured in "per capita household" terms, wealth …

analyze the upper edge of income and wealth distribution in Germany with data from the German Socio·Economic Panel (SOEP … wealth they have on average (intensity), and how these financial resources are distributed among the rich persons … upper edge of income and wealth distribution. For example, we find that in comparison to the average in Germany, civil …

The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata …-data-collection stage may interfere considerably with the substantive research question. Looking at wealth data from the German SOEP, this … analysis affects wealth distribution and inequality analysis. Obviously, when measured in "per capita household" terms, wealth …

While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … wealth and income distribution can significantly diverge. We measure ex-ante IOp in net wealth for Germany using data from … wealth before effort is exerted. The SOEP allows for a direct mapping from individual circumstances to individual net wealth …

analyzed empirically using micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP). Wealth in 2002 is regressed on … also taken into account. When using net financial wealth, precautionary saving is statistically significant and … economically quite important. The share of precautionary net financial wealth in total aggregate net financial wealth is on average …