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Retirement wealth is often viewed as a great equalizer, offsetting the inequality in standard household net worth. One … considerably weaker offsetting effect on wealth inequality in 2001 than in 1983. Whereas standard net worth inequality increased … modestly between 1983 and 2001, the inequality of augmented wealth (the sum of retirement wealth and net worth) surged from …
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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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transfers to other sources of household wealth has had a sizeable effect on reducing the inequality of wealth. – Inheritance … ; household wealth ; inequality …
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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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transfers to other sources of household wealth has had a sizeable effect on reducing the inequality of wealth …
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household wealth to household income considerably increases measured inequality and the share of income from wealth in … inequality. However, both measures show about the same rise in inequality over the period. Our results contradict the assertion …
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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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Research on wealth inequality usually focuses on real and financial assets, while pension wealth – the present value of …
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Individuals with assets in the millions of euros have been underrepresented in population surveys and accordingly little has been known about them. As a result, the full extent of wealth concentration in Germany was unknown. To close the existing data gap, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) inte-...
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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 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622210