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differences: men tend to inherit larger sums than women during their working life. Women often outlive their male partners, thus …
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differences: men tend to inherit larger sums than women during their working life. Women often outlive their male partners, thus …
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differences: men tend to inherit larger sums than women during their working life. Women often outlive their male partners, thus …
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differences: men tend to inherit larger sums than women during their working life. Women often outlive their male partners, thus …
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This paper investigates the gender wealth gap using wealth recorded in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ranking women … receiving higher inheritances and inter-vivos gifts during working life, while women inherit large sums later in life, when they … are more likely to be widowed. As a result, men appear more likely to create wealth and women to inherit wealth …
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beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Both men and women felt lonelier during the COVID-19 pandemic than they did in 2017 …. The pandemic more than doubled the gender loneliness gap: women were lonelier than men in 2017, and the 2017-2020 rise in … loneliness was far larger for women. This rise is mirrored in life-satisfaction scores, which historically are often found to be …
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Who makes it to the top? We use the leading, socio-economic survey in Germany supplemented by extensive data on the rich to answer this question. We identify the key predictors for belonging to the top 1 percent of income, wealth, and both distributions jointly. Although we consider many, only a...
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Two conversion schemes may be employed for assessing income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we show the sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the...
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Income-expenditure surveys typically provide incomes on the household level. As households can differ in size and needs, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original heterogeneous into an artificial quasi-homogeneous population....
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We use a survey method designed to capture whether the consumption sharing ability of households varies systematically at different levels of well being. Evidence from Cyprus reconfirms our previous results from other countries, that household consumption economies of scale increase as the...
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