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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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Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia …, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer …
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differentials in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States. Notwithstanding the country differences concerning welfare state …
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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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