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 …

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 …

This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini … one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices …

Wealth in addition to income determines to a large degree an individual’s consumption opportunities and economic … satisfaction as an indicator of subjective well being and households’ wealth. We contribute to the scarce literature on wealth and … well-being using micro-data from the German wealth survey, Panel on Household Finances - PHF, for 2010 and 2014. Using …

With growing wealth inequality in the United States, understanding the implications on individual well-being becomes … theoretical perspective, wealth is a better indication of life-time financial resources, as compared to income which is recorded … at a point in time. More recent research has indicated that wealth, or income and wealth taken together, explain more of …

philanthropy and the use of wealth hold true in other national settings when compared to previous literature on "major donors …." Some results may be more specific to French society, whose relation to money and wealth and to private initiatives for the …