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, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (2002–17) to examine the level of and inequality in wealth for children … from single-parent families using recentred influence function regression and decomposition analysis. We replicate earlier …, inequality between children from single-parent families is higher than for other family types and this inequality can only partly …
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among the wealthy, while owner-occupied housing is crucial for middle groups, so higher stock prices raise wealth inequality … while house price increases do the opposite. Inheritances exacerbate absolute wealth inequality but reduce rel …-ative inequality. Wealth inequality declined in advanced Western countries during the first half of the 20th century, then stabilized …
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with wealth returns. Our results provide new insights into why inequality in capital income is greater than in labor income …
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with wealth returns. Our results provide new insights into why inequality in capital income is greater than in labor income …
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Research on wealth inequality usually focuses on real and financial assets, while pension wealth – the present value of …
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This study estimates intergenerational correlations in mid-life wealth across three generations, and a young fourth generation, and examines how much of the parent-child association that can be explained by inheritances. Using a Swedish data set we find parent-child rank correlations of 0.3-0.4...
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We compile data spanning the period 1900–2014 and up to 30 countries to study long-run patterns in the tax elasticity of top incomes. Our results show that top tax elasticities vary tremendously over time; they were medium-to-low before 1950, virtually zero during the postwar era up to 1980 and...
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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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aggregate importance of inherited wealth and its link to inequality of opportunity significantly increases the support for …
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This study estimates intergenerational correlations in mid-life wealth across three generations, and a young fourth generation, and examines how much of the parent-child association that can be explained by inheritances. Using a Swedish data set we find parent-child rank correlations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985275