Wealth and Inheritances in Europe

  • The knowledge of the distribution of assets and liabilities as well as the key determinants of the distributions of private wealth represent an important basis for decision-making for social and political action like levying taxes. In the three papers, which make up this dissertation, I contribute to these aspects for several European countries. In the first paper (with M.M. Grabka) the data quality of the Household Finance and Consump-tion Survey (HFCS) is investigated. The survey provides information and enables comparison of assets and liabilities held by households in the Euro area. We investigate potential methodo-logical constraints regarding cross-country comparability and evaluate their impact on the surveyed net wealth (assets minus liabilities). In addition, we investigate item non-response patterns, a serious issue in wealth surveys. We find that the surveyed net wealth in Finland, the Netherlands, Italy and Slovakia is most likely not comparable with the other countries.(...)

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Metadaten
Document Type:Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Author(s):Anita Tiefensee
Advisor:Henrik Enderlein, Timm Bönke, Gert G. Wagner
Hertie Collections (Serial Number):Dissertations submitted to the Hertie School (02/2017)
Publication year:2016
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
Granting Institution:Hertie School
Thesis date:2017/05/12
Number pages:XIII, 139
Release Date:2017/08/04
Tag:EU-Staaten; Einkommensverteilung; Erbe; Erbschaft; Erbschaftsteuer; Europäische Union; Generationengerechtigkeit; Mitgliedsstaaten; Privatvermögen; Vermögen; Vermögensverteilung
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Shelf mark: 2017D006 + 2017D006+1
Hertie School Research:Publications PhD Researchers
Licence of document (German):Metadaten (öffentlich), Volltext (zugriffsbeschränkt)
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