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This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses … the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are there common trends across countries or over the path of development …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762002
This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses … the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are there common trends across countries or over the path of devel …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762027
This paper focuses on three issues. First, it analyses the increasing inequality of wealth in Sweden in terms of … percentile age and birth cohort differences. Second, it discusses mobility of wealth as a function of age, length of the … wealth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644612
wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U … States. In addition to less inequality and a higher median wealth, we also show that wealth quintile mobility in the 1990's …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005779750
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This paper focuses on three issues. First, it analyses the increasing inequality of wealth in Sweden in terms of … percentile age and birth cohort differences. Second, it discusses mobility of wealth as a function of age, length of the … wealth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005779801
wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …. In addition to less inequality and a higher median wealth, we also show that wealth quintile mobility in the 1990’s has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642517
between initial wealth and entrepreneurship. However, in a recent paper Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher order of … polynomials in wealth and find that there is no relationship between household initial wealth and the probability of starting an … own business throughout most of the wealth distribution in the United States. In this paper we examine this relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644574
wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U … States. In addition to less inequality and a higher median wealth, we also show that wealth quintile mobility in the 1990's …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669551
What determines the structure of labour market institutions? This paper argues that common explanations based on rent sharing are incomplete; unions, job protection, and egalitarian pay structures may have as much to do with social insurance of otherwise uninsurable risks as with rent sharing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190461