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with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany … countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain …, results from panel regression fixed effects models indicate that changes in wealth, income and consumption all produce …
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This paper investigates the relationship between wealth, ageing and saving behaviour of private households by using … pooled cross sections of German consumption survey data. Different components of wealth are distinguished, as their impact on … wealth. In addition, the savings rate strongly responds to demographic trends. Besides the direct impact of the age structure …
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(HILDA) Survey, this paper demonstrates that wealth, which can be viewed as providing a degree of economic security, is at …
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and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial …-employed professionals. The high level of human wealth of contemporary American Jews is not at the expense of non-human wealth. Overall, and … even when other variables including schooling are held constant, Jews have higher levels of wealth and higher rates of …
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increase individuals' financial literacy and that the relationship between financial literacy and wealth is largely …
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for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket medical expenses, as well as financial wealth sufficient to buffer against …
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This paper examines the effect of wealth on labour market behaviour. Providing convincing evidence on this relationship … is challenging since wealth and labour supply may be endogenously determined. We overcome this by looking at wealth … theoretical framework which outlines how an individual's labour market behaviour may be expected to react to a wealth shock under …
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detailed survey and interviewer data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, considering a broad set of income and wealth outcomes. …
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We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of … entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship … function of individual wealth while the introduction of start-up costs tends to flatten this relationship. The theoretical …
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the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of … a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the role of income and wealth as dimensions of multidimensional well …-being in Germany and the US in 2007 as well as for the US over the period 1989-2007. We find distinct country differences with …
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