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This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … framework based on a collective model of labor supply, where household decisions are Pareto efficient, and spouses negotiate a … wives tend to be more altruistic in comparison to their husbands regarding the intra-household allocation of income, which …
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equality of opportunity. Finally, it provides an empirical analysis of equality of opportunity for higher education in Italy …
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While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting...
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We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal …
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the association between household wealth portfolios at the intensive margin (the level of assets) and household …
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of these new evaluation tools: in the first exercise, we compare the income distributions of South and North of Italy on …
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This study provides a comparison of the size and value of unpaid family care work in two European member States, Italy …, in Italy the number of people performing family care work is higher, also due to the larger population. Italians …. However, the huge difference in the value of unpaid family care work, which in Italy exceeds the value of Poland by about …
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with respect to wealth holdings and financial decisions. Immigrant household heads hold less net wealth than native, but …
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The recent literature has argued for high concentration of earnings, differences in rates of return on assets and bequests as potential determinants of the high level of wealth concentration in the US. Analyzing the joint distribution of earnings, capital income and net worth, we find evidence...
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This paper describes trends in parental wealth homogamy among union cohorts formed between 1987 and 2013 in Denmark. Using high-quality register data on the wealth of parents during the year of partnering, we show that the correlation between partners' levels of parental wealth is considerably...
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