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Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this finding relies on cross-section data, we may confuse older with wealthier. We propose a new method to adjust for age effects in cross-sections, which eliminates transitory...
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rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … relate it to cross-country differences in mortgage market maturity. We find that aside from Italy, homeownership rates and … different degree of development of their respective mortgage markets. In Italy, alternative ways of financing, such as family …
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Germany and Japan. …-tax (disposable) income moved to the right in the United States and Great Britain while inequality declined. In contrast, Germany and … Japan experienced less growth, a rise in inequality and a decline in the middle mass of their distributions that spread …
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characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community …Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht auf Basis von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels für Deutschland (SOEP), inwieweit … selbständige Ausländer in Deutschland überdurchschnittlich hohe Einkommen erzielen. Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass ausländische …
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Switzerland and three percent in Germany. The impact of occupational feminization on wages is not linear, but sets apart … remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye this question over the 1990s and 2000s in Britain, Germany and … Switzerland, using longitudinal panel data to estimate individual fixed effects for men and women. Moving from an entirely male to …
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. Using data on eight advanced economies (Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Slovakia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and United …
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We study the role of parental wealth for children's educational and occupational outcomes across three types of welfare states and outline a theoretical model that assumes parental wealth to impact offspring's attainment through two mechanisms, wealth’s purchasing function and its insurance...
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differentials in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States. Notwithstanding the country differences concerning welfare state …
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national samples from Germany, the UK, and the US, we examine how long this period lasts. In all three nations and across the …
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In recent years the topic entrepreneurship has become a major focus in the social sciences, with renewed interest in the links between personality and entrepreneurship. Taking a socioecological perspective to psychology, which emphasizes the role of social habitats and their interactions with...
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