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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
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016356
The new Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) creates for the first time a harmonized cross national database on household … in preparing harmonized and comparable wealth data across countries, and summarizes some results for the nine countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012712673
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/10013028508
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 … surveys, historical national accounts, and rich lists to analyze the evolution of the German wealth distribution over the long …
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Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
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It is a well-known criticism that due to its exponential distribution, survey data on wealth is hardly reliable when it … the number of households possessing a net wealth greater than four million Euros as well as their aggregate wealth … suggest that the alleged non-observation bias is considerable, accounting for about one quarter of total net wealth. The …
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We study beliefs about wealth inequality and preferences for wealth redistribution. For this, we conduct a large …-scale online survey in Germany. First, we analyze how well participants are informed about the German wealth distribution and their … position in it. Second, we investigate how preferences for wealth redistribution are affected by an information experiment. One …
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inequality. In high income countries, the evidence that income (wealth) does have a causal impact on health in adulthood is weak …
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