id,collection,dc.contributor.author[],dc.date.accessioned[],dc.date.available[],dc.date.issued[],dc.description.abstract[en],dc.format.extent[],dc.identifier.uri,dc.identifier.uri[],dc.language[],dc.relation.ispartofseries[],dc.rights.uri[],dc.subject.ddc[],dc.subject[],dc.title.subtitle[],dc.title[],dc.type[],dcterms.accessRights.openaire,refubium.affiliation[de],refubium.mycore.derivateId[],refubium.mycore.fudocsId[],refubium.series.issueNumber[],refubium.series.name[] "8ed5e8b0-8523-4805-b92d-9cb439040d31","fub188/18846","Bönke, Timm||Werder, Marten v.||Westermeier, Christian","2018-06-08T11:45:42Z","2016-12-20T11:03:51.993Z","2016","We use data from the European Household Finance and Consumption Survey in order to examine the distributional effect of intergenerational wealth transfers on the net worth distribution in 8 European countries and compare it to recent findings for the US. To do so, we resort to the decomposition of the coefficient of variation as suggested and applied by Wolff (1987, 2002, 2015) and Wolff and Gittleman (2014). The results hint that inheritances and gifts have a vastly equalizing effect on inequality in household wealth in all 8 countries.","10 Seiten","http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-25270","https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/22066","eng","urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-fudocsseries000000000532-8||urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-fudocsseries000000000006-7","http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/refubium/rechtliches/Nutzungsbedingungen","300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::332 Finanzwirtschaft","Inheritance||Household wealth||Inequality","an International Comparison","How Inheritances Shape Wealth Distributions","Buch","open access","Wirtschaftswissenschaft","FUDOCS_derivate_000000007445","FUDOCS_document_000000026051","2016,26 : Economics","Diskussionsbeiträge des Fachbereichs Wirtschaftswissenschaft der Freien Universität Berlin"