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considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth. -- Affluence ; multidimensional measurement ; mobility ; elites …
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We analyze the top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, Spain, and Greece based on the Household Finance … and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be underrepresented in household surveys we integrate the big … of household wealth in Germany jumps up from 24 percent in the HFCS alone to 33 percent after top wealth imputation. For …
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German history over the past 125 years has been turbulent. Marked by two world wars, revolutions and major regime … insights into the role of country-specific shocks in shaping long-run wealth dynamics. This paper presents the first … comprehensive study of wealth and its distribution in Germany since the 19th century. We combine tax and archival data, household …
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considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth …
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considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195699
This paper reports on trends in inequality of the distribution of household disposable wealth in West Germany from 1973 … to 1998, and compares the changes in the size distribution of household disposable wealth in West and East Germany …. The Gini coefficients for disposable household wealth are about double the coefficients for household disposable income …
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German history over the past 125 years has been turbulent. Marked by two world wars, revolutions and major regime … insights into the role of country-specific shocks in shaping long-run wealth dynamics. This paper presents the first … comprehensive study of wealth and its distribution in Germany since the 19th century. We combine tax and archival data, household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013361274
considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825579
,000 observations on personal wealth and political office-holding in the city state of Nördlingen from 1579 to 1700. I employ a …, contributing to an unequal wealth distribution. The results are hard to square with a common historical narrative suggesting that …
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This paper studies the impact of the Protestant Reformation on wealth distribution and inequality in confessionally …
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