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Asset poverty in the United States : its persistence in an expansionary economy

Caner, Asena (contributor); Wolff, Edward N. (contributor) - 2004

asset poverty rates were declining. The impression was supported by the official, income-based poverty measure, which … exhibited a sharp decline. According to Senior Scholar Edward N. Wolff and Research Scholar Asena Caner, poverty measures should … include wealth as well as income. Their study of asset poverty in the United States between 1984 and 1999 focuses on the lower …

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Inheritances and the distribution of wealth or whatever happened to the great inheritance boom?

Wolff, Edward N.; Gittleman, Maury B. - 2011

We found that on average over the period from 1989 to 2007, 21 percent of American households at a given point of time received a wealth transfer and these accounted for 23 percent of their net worth. Over the lifetime, about 30 percent of households could expect to receive a wealth transfer and...

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Inheritances and the distribution of wealth or whatever happened to the great inheritance boom?

Wolff, Edward N.; Gittleman, Maury B. - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907281

Deconstructing household wealth trends in the United States, 1983 - 2013

Wolff, Edward N. - 2016

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Is wealth becoming more polarized in the United States?

D'Ambrosio, Conchita (contributor); … - 2001

Recent work has documented a rising degree of wealth inequality in the United States between 1983 and 1998. In this paper, we look at another dimension of the distribution, polarization. Using techniques developed by Esteban and Ray (1994) and further extended by D'Ambrosio (2001), we examine...

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Recent trends in wealth ownership, 1983 - 1998

Wolff, Edward N. - 2000

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Household Wealth and the Measurement of Economic Well-Being in the United States

Wolff, Edward N. - 2006

The standard official measure of household economic well-being in the United States is gross money income. The general consensus is that such measures are limited because they ignore other crucial determinants of well-being. We modify the standard measure to account for one such determinant:...

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A Head-To-Head Comparison of Augmented Wealth in Germany and the United States

Boenke, Timm - 2017

We provide levels of, compositions of, and inequalities in household augmented wealth – defined as the sum of net worth and pension wealth – for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of household wealth: about 48% in the United States...

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A Head-to-Head Comparison of Augmented Wealth in Germany and the United States

Boenke, Timm - 2017

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Household Wealth Trends in the United States, 1962 to 2016 : Has Middle Class Wealth Recovered?

Wolff, Edward N. - 2017

Asset prices plunged between 2007 and 2010 but then rebounded from 2010 to 2016. The most telling finding is that median wealth plummeted by 44 percent over years 2007 to 2010. The inequality of net worth, after almost two decades of little movement, went up sharply from 2007 to 2010, and...

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