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We review the effects on the Covid-19 pandemic on inequalities in education, the labour market, household living … standards, mental health, and wealth in the UK. The pandemic has pushed up inequalities on several dimensions. School closures … expanded welfare system meant that, if anything, disposable income inequality fell. Rising house prices have benefited people …
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The distributions of income and wealth in countries across the world are found to possess some robust and stable …
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The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development … characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the evolution of the wealth distribution in developed countries is … transition. The data used originates from the taxation of wealth and estates. …
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. From World War I up until about 1950, the richest percentile lost ground to the rest of the top wealth decile where … in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. …We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization …
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-dustrialization. From World War I up until about 1950, the richest percentile lost ground to the rest of the top wealth decile where … in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. …We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the begin-ning of industrialization …
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, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …
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, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …
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In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …
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In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269901
In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271359