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in the measurement of household welfare all material components should be covered, i.e. consumption, income and wealth … consumption, income and wealth can be analysed. Current researches linking macro and micro information for the households have … to household wealth using both survey data and financial accounts. It builds a link between wealth survey and national …
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Crossing borders, be it international or regional, often go together with price, wage or indeed wealth discontinuities …. This paper identifies substantial wealth differences between Luxembourg resident households and cross-border commuter … households despite their similar incomes. The average (median) net wealth difference is estimated to be €367,000 (€129,000) and …
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-simulations to investigate heterogeneity in the euro area. We quantify shocks to wealth, income and financial pressure faced by … affected the income-poor, while the declining wealth the income-rich. Although borrowers benefited from the substantial … consumption growth driven by both rich and poor households: while the former were hit by large shocks to wealth, the latter also …
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We address the question of whether the heterogeneity in savings is partly due to differences in pension wealth across … individuals and across countries, using a European harmonised wealth survey (HFCS) combined with estimates of pension wealth (OECD …). First, we find significant displacement effects of mandatory pension wealth on non-pension financial wealth at the mean, and …
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We analyse the effect of shocks to housing wealth and income before and after the Great Recession. We combine datasets … containing information on expenditure, income, wealth and debt in a synthetic panel to understand how household indebtedness … affects the response to income and wealth shocks.We find evidence for both a housing wealth effect and income shocks …
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Globalisation has a major impact on the levels and distribution of wealth. The financial markets are highly integrated … wealth over the past 25 years. Nonetheless, this has not led to an equally large increase in property income because the … decrease in rates of return seems to contradict claims that, due to an increase in both financial and inherited wealth, we are …
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This paper studies the effects of quantitative easing on income and wealth of individual euro area households. The … which key variables affecting household income and wealth are included, such as the unemployment rate, wages, interest rates … contrast, monetary policy has only negligible effects on wealth inequality. …
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received a wealth transfer and these accounted for 23 percent of their net worth. Over the lifetime, about 30 percent of … households could expect to receive a wealth transfer and these would account for close to 40 percent of their net worth near time … reporting a wealth transfer fell by 2.5 percentage points. The average value of inheritances received among all households did …
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in the measurement of household welfare all material components should be covered, i.e. consumption, income and wealth … consumption, income and wealth can be analysed. Current researches linking macro and micro information for the households have … to household wealth using both survey data and financial accounts. It builds a link between wealth survey and national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072608
, income and welfare state policies in explaining differences in household net wealth within and between euro area countries … these households have considerably higher net wealth than those which did not inherit. Second, regression analyses on … households' relative wealth position show that, on average, having received an inheritance lifts a household by about 14 net …
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