The Luxembourg Wealth Study – A Cross-Country Comparable Database for Household Wealth Research. Sierminska, E., Brandolini, A., & Smeeding, T. M. The Journal of Economic Inequality, 4(3):375–383, 2006.
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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.
@article{Sierminskaetal2006,
  title = {The {{Luxembourg}} Wealth Study \textendash{} {{A}} Cross-Country Comparable Database for Household Wealth Research},
  author = {Sierminska, Eva and Brandolini, Andrea and Smeeding, Timothy M.},
  year = {2006},
  journal = {The Journal of Economic Inequality},
  volume = {4},
  number = {3},
  pages = {375--383},
  doi = {10.1007/s10888-006-9030-z},
  url = {http://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-006-9030-z},
  abstract = {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 = {Cross-National Comparisons,Determinants of Wealth and Wealth Inequality,Impacts of Wealth Inequality}
}

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