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We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index …, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann …
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The performance of the U.S. retirement income system - including employment-based retirement plans, Social Security …, individual saving, and post-retirement employment - can in part be assessed by examining the income of current retirees. This … retired population's income, how it has changed over time, and how retirees' reliance on particular sources of income varies …
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relationships between income and wealth, house price inflation, differential savings, and income from wealth. … decomposed using data from two national sample surveys of the China Household Income Project (CHIP) relating to 2002 and 2013 …
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analysed, and the savings rate links income and consumption, while capital accumulation is the central mechanism linking income …Using household data from 1988 to 2018, we confirm that the increase in income inequality in China has come to a halt … of inequality across the different dimensions of income, consumption, and wealth. Households at the top of one dimension …
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We empirically investigate the distributional consequences of the Riester scheme, the main private pension subsidization program in Germany. We find that 38% of the aggregate subsidy accrues to the top two deciles of the population, but only 7.3% to the bottom two. Nonetheless the Riester scheme...
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plans affect retirement savings for lower earners more than for higher earners. The authors match Survey of Income and …Changes in accumulated retirement savings, particularly in employer-sponsored defined contribution (DC) plan balances … retirement savings outcomes by earnings level beyond mere differences in earnings …
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inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …
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objective health measures. -- Health inequality ; concentration index ; income measurement ; SOEP … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …
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This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …
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This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459794