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We document the intergenerational persistence of wealth between adult offspring and their parent's using the Wealth and Assets Survey for Great Britain. We estimate an intergenerational wealth elasticity of 0.4 and rank-rank elasticity of 0.3 and find wealth persistence for individuals in their...
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mobility. We show the change in the intergenerational persistence in wealth in Great Britain is due to inequality in offspring …
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We document the intergenerational persistence of wealth between adult offspring and their parent's using the Wealth and Assets Survey for Great Britain. We estimate an intergenerational wealth elasticity of 0.4 and rank-rank elasticity of 0.3 and find wealth persistence for individuals in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793768
mobility. We show the change in the intergenerational persistence in wealth in Great Britain is due to inequality in offspring …
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allows us to offer a global and disaggregate analysis of mobility as proportionate change in inequality and hence provide the … percent of the distribution there are few movements of earnings that effect the level of permanent inequality except in …
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It is widely recognised that, on average, children from poorer backgrounds have worse educational outcomes than their better off peers. There is less evidence on how this relationship has changed over time and, indeed, what exactly leads to these inequalities. In this paper we demonstrate that...
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between mobility that tends to reduce or increase the level of permanent inequality. This paper focuses on four European … equalize the level of permanent inequality. Six year changes comparing the average between 1994 and 1995 with the average of … reduction in inequality patterns (5 to 10%) adopting the Gini index and there is no clear correlation between mobility and …
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related to increased earnings inequality, growth in the number of single (lone) parent households, and an increased share of …
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