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Intergenerational transfers and wealth in the Euro-area : the relevance of inheritances and gifts in absolute and relative terms
Tiefensee, Anita; Westermeier, Christian - 2016
Private wealth is a crucial factor for the economic well-being of households. Key determinants of private wealth include intergenerational wealth transfers (gifts and inheritances), which are gaining importance since 1990, as research suggests. We conduct a detailed investigation of the...
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Trends in intergenerational home ownership and wealth transmission
Blanden, Jo; Eyles, Andrew; Machin, Stephen - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509953
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Intergenerational transfers : how do they shape the German wealth distribution?
Werder, Marten von - 2018
This paper uses SOEP data to study the distributional effect of intergenerational transfers on the wealth distribution of German households. Similar to most other central European countries, Germany is likely to face a period of increasing aggregate bequest flows. At the same time, there is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011915902
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Love and money with inheritance : marital sorting by labor income and inherited wealth in the modern partnership
Pasteau, Etienne; Zhu, Junyi - 2018
affected by inheritance distribution. The relative attraction derived from inherited wealth and acquired human capital in …, covering both labor income and inheritance. This paper studies the concentration and substitutability of these two traits in … outcomes seen in France. By assuming a sequential revelation of inheritance and labor income in marital sorting, we develop a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874278
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How inheritances shape wealth distributions : an international comparison
Bönke, Timm; Werder, Marten von; Westermeier, Christian - 2016
We use data from the European Household Finance and Consumption Survey in order to examine the distributional effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573797
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Erbschaft und Eigenleistung im Vermögen der Deutschen : eine Verteilungsanalyse
Bönke, Timm; Corneo, Giacomo; Westermeier, Christian - 2015
This paper investigates the role of inheritance in the distribution of wealth in Germany. Recently collected survey … data allow us to compute inheritance - wealth ratios for various quantiles based on several assumptions concerning the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010508585
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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2016
Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents ́and childrenś economic well-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between and within country setup, using harmonized micro data from 18 Latin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440819
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Dynastic inequality compared : multigenerational mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany
Neidhöfer, Guido; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2016
Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test recent theories of multigenerational persistence of socio-economic status. In this country comparison setting we find evidence against Gregory Clark's "universal law of social...
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The changing geography of intergenerational mobility
Bell, Brian; Blundell, Jack; Machin, Stephen - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947709
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Intergenerational persistence in income and social class : the impact of within-group inequality
Blanden, Jo; Gregg, Paul; Macmillan, Lindsey - 2013
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