Get Rich or Die Tryin
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Get Rich or Die Tryin
Get Rich or Die Tryin’ Determinants of Wealth Accumulation in Europe S. Humer — M. Moser INEQ @ WU Vienna September 30, 2015 1/1 Overview How is wealth structured? How do socioeconomic characteristics correlate w/ wealth? How are rich households different? How to get rich (in different countries)? This talk analyzes Sources of wealth inequality: Capital income Structure of wealth inequality: Education, Employment, ... The roots of wealth inequality: Income vs. Inheritance 2/1 HFCS Data Household Finance and Consumption Survey 2010 Ex ante harmonized household survey Underreporting, especially at the upper tail Analysis of non-response, collection of metadata, interviewer-effects Measurement unit: private households ↖↘ Socioeconomic characteristics at the individual level 3/1 “...20 years of hard work are enough to live off the interest...” Frank Stronach (2012) 4/1 Labor vs. capital income 5/1 Figure: Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth in Austria 6/1 Distribution of wealth in the Euro area (Gini) Source: Sierminska and Medgyesi (2013) 6/1 Employment status 1.00 Category: Employee Self-employed Transfer benef. Retiree Other Composition 0.75 0.50 0.25 0.00 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Percentiles 7/1 Economic sectors of business wealth 1.00 Composition 0.75 Category: Primary Secondary Tertiary 0.50 0.25 0.00 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Percentiles 8/1 Results for Education (∅ per 1.000 Euro) Education Primary Secondary I Secondary II Tertiary Share Main Residence Tangibles Real Estate Business 0,00 0,16 0,68 0,15 65,7 99,9 124,4 148,7 7,3 8,0 29,4 66,3 0,0 24,3 76,3 88,2 Primary Secondary I Secondary II Tertiary Finan. Wealth Safe Risky Tot. Wealth Gross Net 22,6 13,1 34,5 54,9 102,5 154,1 290,3 408,2 2,8 2,3 9,9 24,7 59,3 146,3 273,2 382,6 9/1 Results for Labour Status (∅ per 1.000 Euro) Labour Status Employed Self-employed I Self-employed II Family workers Share 0,43 0,04 0,06 0,00 Employed Self-employed I Self-employed II Family workers Main Residence 104,9 231,9 264,3 270,3 Tangibles Real Estate 17,6 107,3 129,0 9,6 Finan. Wealth Safe Risky Tot. Wealth Gross Net 31,4 83,6 51,9 48,5 204,7 982,9 891,0 814,1 9,4 18,8 9,7 0,0 Business 28,9 471,9 408,3 427,6 181,4 931,9 860,7 670,2 10 / 1 Who are the Millionaires? HH ≥ 1 Mil. Euro Employed 0.44 Self-emp. I 4.91 Self-emp. II 4.51 Total 1.00 Education Secondary I Secondary II Tertiary 0.89 0.42 0.33 0.00 4.69 5.26 5.79 4.91 1.88 0.81 0.93 1.56 HH Size 1 Person 2 Persons 3 Persons 4 Persons 5 Persons 6 Persons 7 and more 0.15 0.33 1.00 0.24 1.26 2.13 0.00 2.31 3.82 4.76 6.53 11.21 12.18 0.84 4.39 6.77 7.06 5.18 16.12 17.29 0.31 0.98 1.79 1.36 2.99 4.96 2.61 Business Agriculture Industry Services None 8.62 2.97 2.30 0.21 10.81 6.36 7.67 2.04 11.88 3.85 2.40 1.64 11.68 4.76 4.96 0.36 11 / 1 Multivariate Approach: Quantile Regressions Estimation approach: address skewness of the distribution Koenker and Bassett, 1978: regress on quantiles of the CDF Given the empirical quantile function Q(τ ) = F−1 (τ ) = inf(y : F(y) ≥ τ ) the τ th quantile can be calculated by min ξ∈ℜ n ∑ ρτ (yi − ξ) i=1 where ρτ is a ‘check–function’ ρτ = τ · I(yi > ξ) + (1 − τ ) · I(yi < ξ) ...which weighs the errors according to the chosen quantile ∑ Followingly we compute β̂(τ ) = arg min ni=1 ρτ (yi − x′i β) 12 / 1 Controlling for Household Structure For the univariate analysis we rely on one reference value e.g. sex of the main respondent Another, more comprehensive approach is given by Fessler, Lindner, and Segalla, 2013: Choose grouped classification variables (age, gender) Classify households by strings of values 3132: Man and woman both 35–64 years old Using four age groups, sex (m/f/children) we are left with 151 HH types 35 of the cover 90% of the sample Included as dummy variables in the regression setup 13 / 1 Quantile Regression Intercept Female (MR) Age (MR) Tert. Edu. (MR) Couples Single parent Families Liabilities Inc. empl. (HH) Inc. self. (HH) Inc. pens. (HH) Inc. trans (HH) Main residence Business Inheritance OLS Mean P10 15.30 -1.35 0.14 6.71 6.98 3.08 8.88 -0.07 0.12 0.13 0.08 -0.19 35.30 18.34 7.96 2.30 -0.92 0.04 5.31 3.00 0.83 3.72 -0.12 0.09 0.09 0.07 -0.31 40.98 21.17 2.78 Quantile regression P25 P50 P75 7.35 -1.71 0.05 6.57 5.60 0.30 6.29 -0.10 0.12 0.08 0.09 -0.36 40.12 19.49 5.37 14.14 -1.77 0.11 6.61 8.36 4.38 9.07 -0.07 0.14 0.12 0.11 -0.21 37.87 18.87 7.02 23.29 -0.47 0.17 6.16 7.49 4.54 12.30 -0.03 0.16 0.14 0.15 -0.05 35.20 17.80 8.41 P90 33.09 -0.79 0.19 5.37 6.57 2.38 10.08 -0.03 0.13 0.19 0.16 0.04 32.06 15.22 9.03 Source: HFCS, own calculations. 14 / 1 Main findings I Wealth concentration very distinctive Analysis of gross vs. net wealth is relevant for the bottom 5% Compared to the rest of the distribution, the lowest 30% hold hardly any wealth are significantly less indebted An increase in the relative wealth postion increases both the value of single wealth categories as well as the participation in other asset classes Especially pronounced: estate & business wealth inequality 15 / 1 Main findings II Household size & composition Size correlated with wealth Older couples & families at the top Occupation Managers, Academics & Farmers Employment status Self employment almost entirely in top decile Average wealth approx. 5 times as large as average wealth of employed Business wealth is concentrated at the top Inheritances (number & type) correlate significantly with wealth postion 16 / 1 Main findings III Conditional on other characteristics.. Neg. correlation of WP and female RP within lower 30% Pos. correlation of WP and employed RP around the median Pos. correlation of WP and HH-size BUT neg. correlation with number of kids in the upper half Neg. but diminishing correlation of WP and indebtedness Constant negligible effect of income: 1 percentile each 10.000 e Most influential indicators for wealth postion Ownership of main residence Business wealth Received inheritances 17 / 1 “...Money meant Power...” Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2005) How do income and inheritances affect the wealth position? 18 / 1 Next steps.. Switch focus to Europe Based on the findings for Austria take a closer look at Europe’s Top 1% and answer who they are where they live how they made their fortune 19 / 1 Caveat: “Super Rich” not included I Source: Vermeulen (2014) 20 / 1 Caveat: “Super Rich” not included II Figure: How rich are the top 1% really? — Q: ECB, Bloomberg 21 / 1 Equal Distribution vs. Actual: Top 10% Wealth Share of Top 10% 0 1000000 3000000 Share if equally distributed Actual share AT BE CY DE ES FI FR GR IT LU MT NL PT SI SK 22 / 1 Equal Distribution vs. Actual: Top 10% Population share of Top 10% 0 1000000 3000000 Share if equally distributed Actual share AT BE DE ES FR GR LU NL PT SI SK 23 / 1 Equal Distribution vs. Actual: Top 5% Population share of Top 5% 0 500000 1500000 Share if equally distributed Actual share AT BE DE ES FR GR LU NL PT SI SK 24 / 1 Equal Distribution vs. Actual: Top 1% 400000 Population share of Top 1% 0 200000 Share if equally distributed Actual share AT BE DE ES FR GR LU NL PT SI SK 25 / 1 Equal Distribution vs. Actual: Top 0.1% Population share of Top 0.1% 0 20000 40000 Share if equally distributed Actual share AT BE DE ES FR GR LU NL PT SI SK 26 / 1 Quantify the influence of bequests Fessler and Schürz (2015) assess the relationship between income, inheritance and wealth Regressions on relative wealth position displays social status more robust to measurement error CDFwnet =β0 + β1 Inheritance + β2 CDFinc + β3 Age + β4 Age2 + β5 Tert. Edu. + β5 Retired + β7 Entrepreneur + ϵ (1) ⇒ bequests increase rank by about 14 percentiles ⇒ three percentiles in the income distribution lead to one percentile in the wealth distribution 27 / 1 Regression results: Income (CDF) 0.6 ● Estimate ● ● ● 0.4 ● ● AT BE DE ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ES FR ● GR LU ● ● ● 0.2 NL PT ● ● SI SK 0.25 0.50 0.75 Quantile 28 / 1 Regression results: Has Received Inheritance 25 ● ● 20 ● ● ● Estimate ● 15 ● ● BE DE ● ● ES ● ● 10 FR ● ● ● GR ● LU ● NL ● 5 AT ● PT ● ● SI SK ● 0 0.25 0.50 0.75 Quantile 29 / 1 Ratio Inheritance/Income (Percentile Gain) ● BE 150 Ratio Percentile Gain AT DE ES FR 100 GR LU 50 ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● NL ● ● ● ● ● PT ● ● ● ● ● ● SI SK ● ● 0 0.25 0.50 0.75 Quantile 30 / 1 ...more to come... → wu.ac.at/ineq 31 / 1