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This paper examines trends in the distribution of household wealth in Great Britain from 1995 to 2005 using the British … Household Panel Survey (BHPS). The data show that wealth is very unevenly distributed and reveal a widening absolute gap over … the period between wealthier households and those with no or negative wealth. However, in relative terms, wealth grew …
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Using the evidence from the Luxembourg Wealth Study it appears that the distribution of wealth in the UK is … and of the wealth differential between the rich and the rest? Using a Pareto model for the upper tail of the distribution …
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In this paper we seek to determine the effect of assets held in early adult life on later outcomes. We specifically look at wages, employment prospects, general health and Malaise. The identification of an asset-effect throws up a number of statistical challenges as asset holding is not random....
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The theory of functional equations is used to clarify the relationship between equilibrium distributions of wealth and …
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This paper presents the first UK estimates of the association between parental wealth during adolescence and a range of … children’s outcomes in early adulthood. Parental wealth is positively associated with all outcomes examined (which include … association reflects the indirect effect of parental wealth on children’s education whereas for homeownership the estimated …
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disadvantage in terms of income than their counterparts. What is less well understood is how they fare in terms of their wealth … and household wealth holdings. We find that overall disabled people have substantially lower household wealth and all … components of wealth (property, financial, pension, physical) than non-disabled people but even these average differences mask …
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There has been a large rise in the UK ratio of personal wealth to national income. Personal wealth has grown since the … 1970s about twice as fast in real terms as national income. Has this rise in the wealth-income ratio led to a corresponding … increase in the wealth being passed on from one generation to the next? Are we returning to the levels of inheritance found in …
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Market participants' risk attitudes, wealth and portfolio composition in°uence their positions in a pegged foreign …
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