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international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about …
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increase individuals' financial literacy and that the relationship between financial literacy and wealth is largely …
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particular interest to economists, namely income and wealth and (b) to discuss issues in relation to their use, in particular … with respect to missing data. We describe how the income and wealth data were collected. We assess the quality of the … consider the relationship between income/wealth and life satisfaction, another variable captured in TILDA. We find that income …
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SIPP data are used to analyze the wealth of the U.S. foreign-born population. We find that the median wealth level of U ….S.-born couples is 2.3 times the median of foreign-born couples, while the median wealth level of U.S.-born singles is three times … that of foreign-born singles. Further, there is a great deal of diversity in wealth within the immigrant population …
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This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a somewhat better economic situation than the average...
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a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the role of income and wealth as dimensions of multidimensional well … the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of …
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This paper investigates the relationship between wealth, ageing and saving behaviour of private households by using … pooled cross sections of German consumption survey data. Different components of wealth are distinguished, as their impact on … wealth. In addition, the savings rate strongly responds to demographic trends. Besides the direct impact of the age structure …
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levels, single immigrants have a wealth advantage of almost $185,000 relative to single native-born individuals. Although the … wealth gap between mixed and native-born couples is not statistically significant, immigrant-only couples have approximately … $150,000 less wealth on average than native-born couples. Relative to equally wealthy native-born couples, immigrant …
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Under socialism it was neither possible nor necessary to accumulate significant levels of personal wealth. The … and 2002, urban average real household net total wealth increased by 24 per cent per annum. There is a concern, however …, that those accumulating wealth are the economic and political elites while those unable to accumulate wealth are the most …
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Do income disparities between men and women translate into longer term wealth disparities? We use the Survey of Income …
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