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Eva M. Sierminska, Andrea Brandolini, Timothy M. Smeeding
In: Journal of Economic Inequality 4 (2006), 3, 375-383
The paper describes the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS), an international project launched in 2003 by the Luxembourg Income Study and by institutions from Canada, Cyprus, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The aim of the project is to assemble and to harmonise existing micro-data on household wealth, in order to provide a sounder basis for comparative research on household net worth, portfolio composition, and wealth distributions.
Keywords: household wealth, household portfolios, distribution of net worth, international comparative data sources
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-006-9030-z