The aging of society increases the importance of public pension systems. This study evaluates the influence of public pension entitlements on wealth inequality. Novel data source - the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey – is used to compare the impact of the public pension...

In 1923 Poland introduced an extraordinary wealth tax. We use internal statistics of the Ministry of Treasury to estimate wealth inequality in interwar Poland. This data source has not been used previously by researchers. There are no estimates of wealth inequality in interwar Poland available...

We study how the problem of the ‘missing rich', the under-representation of the wealthiest in household surveys, affects wealth inequality estimates for the post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The survey data from the second wave of the Household Finance and...