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olds, we estimate similar health gradients in income and wealth in both countries, but for 70-80 year old, we find no … benefits are largely flat and independent of past income and hence past health during the working years. Finally, we report … income gradient in UK. Standard behavioral risk factors (work, marriage, obesity, exercise, and smoking) almost fully explain …
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olds, we estimate similar health gradients in income and wealth in both countries, but for 70-80 year old, we find no … benefits are largely flat and independent of past income and hence past health during the working years. Finally, we report … income gradient in UK. Standard behavioral risk factors (work, marriage, obesity, exercise, and smoking) almost fully explain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141729
We document the intergenerational persistence of wealth between adult offspring and their parent's using the Wealth and … Assets Survey for Great Britain. We estimate an intergenerational wealth elasticity of 0.4 and rank-rank elasticity of 0 ….3 and find wealth persistence for individuals in their 60s is lower than for those currently aged in their 30s and early 40s …
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The rapid widening of intergenerational wealth inequalities has led to sharp differences in living standards in Great … Britain. Understanding which components of wealth are driving such inequalities is important for improving wealth and social … mobility. We show the change in the intergenerational persistence in wealth in Great Britain is due to inequality in offspring …
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The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … outcome of this process entails relevant information about the evolution of the income distribution. We exploit the LIS micro … disposable income distributions evolved over time. The results indicate that polarization increased in all the considered …
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Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this … in cross-sections, which eliminates transitory wealth inequality due to age, yet preserves inequality arising from other … yield erroneous wealth inequality rankings of countries …
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. Surprisingly, when focusing on Germany and the U.S., populist voting is highest in less globalised regions with rather equal income …
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. Surprisingly, when focusing on Germany and the U.S., populist voting is highest in less globalised regions with rather equal income …
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satisfaction for subjective well-being (SWB) and relative income and employment security for objective well-being (OWB). We ran …
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