Mind the Gap: Inheritance and Inequality in Retirement Wealth

Inheritance And Inequality Of Wealth: A Comment

Retirement Wealth across Cohorts: the Role of Earnings Inequality

Changes in labor markets over the past 30 years suggest upcoming changes in the distribution of wealth at retirement. Workers from the baby boom cohort have spent the majority of their working years in a labor market with substantially higher earnings inequality than previous generations. This paper investigates how changes in lifetime earnings distributions affect the distribution of retiremen...

Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and Inequality in Premodern Societies Production Systems, Inheritance, and Inequality in Premodern Societies

Premodern human societies differ greatly in socioeconomic inequality. Despite much useful theorizing on the causes of these differences, individual-level quantitative data on wealth inequality is lacking. The papers in this special section provide the first comparable estimates of intergenerational wealth transmission and inequality in premodern societies, with data on more than 40 measures of ...

Retirement and wealth.

The decision to retire is related to the decision to save and to a number of other decisions, including decisions of when to claim Social Security benefits and what share of assets to hold as pensions, Social Security, and in other forms. This article explores the relationships among these various decisions and then explains why it is important to take them into account when attempting to under...

“Mind the Gap” in Reporting the Outdated Statistics