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with respect to wealth holdings and financial decisions. Immigrant household heads hold less net wealth than native, but … only above the median of the wealth distribution, with housing as the main driver. Immigrant status reduces the likelihood … worsened the condition of immigrants in terms of wealth holdings, home ownership, and financial fragility. …
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We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account … rights reduces the gender wealth gap. The data for our analysis come from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the … few surveys collecting information on wealth and pension entitlements at the individual level. Pension wealth data are …
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The literature on wealth inequality is expanding very fast. Wealth is usually more concentrated than income. However …, traditional measures of wealth inequality are based only on private wealth, and thus exclude public pension entitlements. In this … chapter, the literature on the impact of public pension entitlements on wealth inequality is discussed. Empirical research …
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This study aims to fill the gap in our understanding about exposure to particulate matters with diameter less than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) and attributable risks and economic costs of mental disorders (MDs). We identify the relationship between PM2.5 and risk of hospital admissions (HAs) for MDs in...
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Cognitive functioning is critical as in our daily life a host of real-world complex decisions in highstakes markets have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental stressors. Summarizing the growing economic and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution,...
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wealth distribution. Life changing situations such as getting divorced or losing one’s job have a statistically significant …
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. These patterns are likely, in turn, to exacerbate existing gradients in other dimensions of ethnicity-based inequality now …
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century, with separate consideration of income and wealth. We analyse the drivers of the changes in inequality and possible …In this article, we show the evolution of inequality for the largest economies of the Latin American region in the 21st …
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We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home country. Without the opportunity to emigrate abroad people choose their educational investment (and hence their skill level) as we might expect, taking into account the utility...
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School closures during the 2020 pandemic forced countries to rapidly adopt distance learning, with uncertain effects on education inequalities. Using PISA 2018 data from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, we find that students unable to learn remotely, because of a lack of ICT...
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