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Einkommens- und Vermögensverteilung: zu ungleich?
Bach, Stefan; Adam, Hermann; Niehues, Judith; … - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 94 (2014) 10, pp. 691-712
gerechte" Einkommensverteilung ist, bleibt fraglich. Zusammenhänge können allerdings diskutiert werden: Ist Ungleichheit der … entwickelt, seitdem aber ist die Ungleichheit zurückgegangen. Ob Ökonomen beurteilen können und sollen, was eine "richtige und … inequality infl uences redistribution preferences. Rising inequality may damage social stability and democracy, but it is unclear …
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Statistical theories of income and wealth distribution
Chakrabarti, Anindya S.; Chakrabarti, Bikas K. - 2009
The distributions of income and wealth in countries across the world are found to possess some robust and stable features independent of the specific economic, social and political conditions of the countries. We discuss a few physics-inspired multi-agent dynamic models along with their...
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The evolution of top incomes in an egalitarian society: Sweden, 1903 - 2004
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2006
This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903 to 2004. We find that, starting from higher levels of inequality than in other Western countries, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first eighty years of the century. The...
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Wealth concentration over the path of development: Sweden, 1873 - 2005
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2007
We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the begin-ning of industrialization until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evi-dence from estate- and wealth tax data, estimates of foreign and domestic family firm-wealth and of pension and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281378
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The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 1903–2004
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2006
This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903-2004. We find that, starting from levels of inequality approximately equal to those in other Western countries at the time, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first eighty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320074
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Long-Run Changes in the Concentration of Wealth: An Overview of Recent Findings
Waldenström, Daniel; Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper - 2007
The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development. More specifically, we are interested in distinguishing between changes which seem to be country specific and characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the...
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Wealth Concentration over the Path of Development: Sweden, 1873–-2006
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2007
We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evidence from estate- and wealth tax data, estimates of foreign and domestic family firm-wealth and of pension and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320172
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Wealthification in the United States and Europe
West, Darrell M. - In: Intereconomics 49 (2014) 5, pp. 295-296
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Ungleichheit in Liechtenstein: Entwicklung bei Vermögen und Einkommen
Brunhart, Andreas; Büchel, Berno - 2016
. Während seit dem Ende der 1960er-Jahre die Ungleichheit der Vermögen in Liechtenstein stark zugenommen hat, ist die … Ungleichheit der Einkommen stabil geblieben. …
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International migration, ethnicity and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...
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