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This paper considers a parametric model for the joint distribution of income and wealth. The model is used to analyze … income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable household-level survey data. We focus on the dependence … parameter between the two variables and study whether accounting for wealth and income jointly reveals a different pattern of …
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specialization of the production function. The model matches well the statistics on income and wealth inequality, and the patterns of … task encroaching on income and wealth inequality. We apply the model to the pandemic recession by adding an SIR block with …
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This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
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to predict the evolution of a wealth distribution over time. Stochastic labour income follows a deterministic growth … interest rate implies a stationary long-run wealth distribution, a high interest rate implies non-stationary wealth … distributions. Our baseline model matches the evolution of the wealth distribution of the NLSY 79 cohort from 1986 to 2008 very well …
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Studies of neighbourhood effects often attempt to identify causal effects of neighbourhood characteristics on individual outcomes, such as income, education, employment, and health. However, selection looms large in this line of research and it has been repeatedly argued that estimates of...
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While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … wealth and income distribution can significantly diverge. We measure ex-ante IOp in net wealth for Germany using data from … wealth before effort is exerted. The SOEP allows for a direct mapping from individual circumstances to individual net wealth …
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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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This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …
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Wealth and Income Database, we find strong long-run links between the aggregate role of capital in the economy and the size …
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including wealth are considerably lower than income‐based measures; (2) poverty rates of the elderly are more affected than …, the types of assets included in the wealth concept and choices with respect to the equivalence scale. Moreover, we check … distributions of wealth. Using data from the HFCS we show that accounting for wealth affects the incidence and age structure of …
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