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kink allows me to identify how UI affect the use of private wealth to finance consumption during unemployment spells. Using … significantly larger liquid wealth than men and young singles. …
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between initial wealth and entrepreneurship. However, in a recent paper Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher order of … polynomials in wealth and find that there is no relationship between household initial wealth and the probability of starting an … own business throughout most of the wealth distribution in the United States. In this paper we examine this relationship …
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wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …. In addition to less inequality and a higher median wealth, we also show that wealth quintile mobility in the 1990's has …
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This is an entry for The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Ed.
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Starting with Krugman (1980), much literature has analyzed how trade liberalization affects the economy based on the notion that trade is motivated by consumer's love of variety. In this paper, I augment these preferences by the determinants of demand for heterogeneous products. The model...
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This paper starts by showing that in the European car industry, there exist cross-country taste differences along the product attribute dimension that significantly drive net trade patterns and reduce the volume of trade. Further it is shown that, after the creation of the European common...
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Survey on Housing Wealth 2008. It is based on Bayesian inference and on the fully conditional specification approach. Both …
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Rich people, women, and healthy people live longer. We document that this heterogeneity in life expectancy is large, and we use an estimated structural model to assess its effect on the elderly's saving. We find that the differences in life expectancy related to observable factors such as...
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find that differences in the wealth, circumstances and family status of women can explain between 58% and 99% of the gap in …
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A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … job loss and those who do not reveals generally increasing entry rates through the wealth distribution for both groups … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth - net housing equity - for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity …
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