Comparative research on income inequality has produced several frameworks to study the
institutional determinants of income stratification. In contrast, no such framework and much …

The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To
better understand this fact, we evaluate the role of specific housing policies that tend to …

This paper analyses the level of inequality in Spain and how it evolved over the course of
the past crisis and the early stages of the current recovery. To this end, it first introduces the …

Inequalities in the distribution of wealth among families with children may have deleterious
health consequences, especially for adolescent children. Marked by significant psychosocial …

Background Following the active ageing model based on the Health, Lifelong Learning,
Participation and Security pillars, this research has a twofold objective: i) to classify older …

El documento analiza el nivel y la evolución de la desigualdad en España durante la última
crisis y la fase inicial de la actual recuperación. Para tal fin, el trabajo introduce …

We examine the composition of augmented household wealth (ie, the sum of net worth and
pension wealth) in the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a …

Many scholars have evaluated the wealth creation effects of homeownership over different
time periods and have agreed on the positive role of homeownership. However, there are no …

Distributional accounts for households enable measurement, study developments
andidentify drivers of inequality. Distributional information on households' wealth is …

This paper presents a model of consumption behavior that explains the presence of 'wealthy
hand-to-mouth'consumers using a mechanism that differs from those analyzed previously …