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This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
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This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291228
the assessment of poverty and wealth in affluent countries in general from a CA perspective. Third, we show how this … and nonfinancial issues of poverty and wealth within this integrative framework. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262866
The Capability Approach has been adopted as a theoretical framework for official Poverty and Wealth Reports by the … contents of the recent 3rd Poverty and Wealth Report. We also explain why the extension of the Capability Approach from poverty … to wealth issues in German reports may be promising also for analyses of capability deprivation in general. Finally, we …
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This paper studies the impact of the Protestant Reformation on wealth distribution and inequality in confessionally …
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consumption expenditure per capita and increasing the probability of falling into consumption poverty, it has no effect on wealth … and the status of wealth poverty. Decomposing consumption expenditure per capita into food, education, and other non … concerning wealth and wealth poverty results. Key mechanisms explaining the adverse consumption effects include displacement of …
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This report gives a new and up-to-date picture of the giving and receiving of significant intergenerational wealth … transfers during life, summarising the findings of two research papers. New data from the Wealth and Assets Survey (WAS) allow … us to build a comprehensive picture of the flow of wealth transfers made during life. The WAS asks about the giving and …
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perspective of an interdependent relation of the polarization dimensions income and wealth, the extent of multidimensional poverty …Income and wealth are important determinants of individual economic well-being because they are a fundamental resource … for consumption. Due to increasing inequality the distribution of income and wealth has moved more and more into the focus …
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In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of households in rural China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and that this effect is stronger for poorer households...
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including demographics is as a function that scales total expenditure, and to make this scaling function indepen- dent of the …
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