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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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Our paper provides some novel evidence on the burgeoning literature on life satisfaction and relative comparisons by showing that in the last 30 years comparisons with the wellbeing of top income countries have generated progressively more negative feelings on a large sample of individuals in...
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inequality persistency. It is firstly outlined that the critical increase in the population education level in all countries has … not come with lower inequality. The basic tools of education and intergenerational mobility modelling are subsequently …
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Curve'' relating social mobility to inequality. …
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” and the key-property of concavity of consumption with respect to wealth. Our application on US data for the period 1980 …
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inequality decomposition techniques, we assess the contribution of each element to overall wealth inequality. We find that wealth …We analyse the distribution of household wealth in Spain using the first wave of the Spanish Survey of Household … Finances, conducted by the Bank of Spain in 2002. We study the distribution of the different wealth components and, using …
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contribution of vehicle use items to total expenditure inequality decreases over time, thus reflecting the more and more widespread …
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The paper focuses on satisfaction with income and proposes a utility model built on two value systems, the `Ego' system - described as one own income assessment relatively to one own past and future income - and the `Alter' system - described as one own income assessment relatively to a...
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as well off as he could be by undertaking inter-period income transfers. There is long-term ex-post inequality of …
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