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Do the Retired Elderly in Europe Decumulate Their Wealth? The Importance of Bequest Motives, Precautionary Saving, Public Pensions, and Homeownership
Horioka, Charles; Ventura, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In this paper, we use micro data on a large number of European countries from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to examine the wealth accumulation (saving) behavior of the retired elderly in Europe. To summarize our main findings, we find that less than half of the...
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Chapter 11 The distribution of wealth
Davies, James B.; Shorrocks, Anthony F. - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 605-675). 2000
differences, but inheritance is also widely recognised as playing a major role, especially at the upper end of the wealth range. A … the results of studies that assess the contributions of inheritance and lifecycle factors, and give attention also to a …
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Housing, wealth accumulation and wealth distribution : evidence and stylized facts
Causa, Orsetta; Woloszko, Nicolas; Leite, David - 2019
This paper produces new evidence and stylised facts on housing, wealth accumulation and wealth distribution, relying on an in-depth analysis of micro-based data on household wealth across OECD countries. The analysis addresses several questions: i) How is homeownership and housing tenure...
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Chapter 16 Wealth transfer taxation: a survey of the theoretical literature
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1107-1134). 2006
combinations of bequest motives, the general conclusion is that the case for a zero taxation of inheritance is very weak. …
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Chapter 14 Altruism, exchange or indirect reciprocity: what do the data on family transfers show?
Arrondel, Luc; Masson, André - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 971-1053). 2006
Most models of family transfers consider only two generations and focus on two motives: altruism and exchange. They …
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How inheriting affects bequest plans
Stark, Oded; Nicinska, Anna - In: Economica 82 (2015), pp. 1126-1152
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Bequest and moral hazard in family
Lee, Insook - In: The Singapore economic review : journal of the Economic … 65 (2020) 2, pp. 533-550
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The intra-family division of bequests and bequest motives : empirical evidence from a survey on Japanese households
Hamaaki, Junya; Hori, Masahiro; Murata, Keiko - In: Journal of population economics 32 (2019) 1, pp. 309-346
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Parents' strategic transfers and sibling competition in the presence of pay-as-you-go pensions
Yakita, Akira - In: Economics letters 170 (2018), pp. 63-65
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Chapter 10. Conflict and Cooperation Within the Family, and Between the State and the Family, in the Provision of Old-Age Security
Cigno, A. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 609-660). 2016
their children. According to another, such negotiations are made unnecessary by self-enforcing family rules. Fertility …
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