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Incomes and inequality in the long run: the case of German elderly
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten; Schulte, Katharina - 2008
We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … financially better-off compared to retired elderly. For reunified Germany, inequality is astonishingly stable over time, but rises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296302
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Incomes and inequality in the long run: the case of German elderly
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten; Schulte, Katharina - 2008
We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … financially better-off compared to retired elderly. For reunified Germany, inequality is astonishingly stable over time, but rises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299132
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Inheritances and the distribution of wealth or whatever happened to the great inheritance boom?
Wolff, Edward N.; Gittleman, Maury - 2011
transfers to other sources of household wealth has had a sizeable effect on reducing the inequality of wealth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605346
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Should egalitarians expropriate philanthropists?
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kanbur, Ravi - 2008
absolute inequality in welfare achievement, while leaving the change in relative inequality ambiguous. Additionally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268906
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What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? Answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, … - 2016
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011690327
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Wealth and Politics: Studies on Inter Vivos Transfers and Partisan Effects
Schinke, Christoph - 2016
government ideology and elections influence outcomes (income inequality and budget consolidation) and political processes (fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698357
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Should egalitarians expropriate philanthropists?
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kanbur, Ravi - 2007
absolute inequality in welfare achievement, while leaving the change in relative inequality ambiguous. Additionally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319089
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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the Eurozone : a cross-country comparison using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288530
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Health and inequality
O'Donnell, Owen; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; Van Ourti, Tom - 2013
distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … difficult to gauge the magnitude of the contribution this makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks … inequality. If material advantage can be excercised within the domain of health, then economic inequality will generate health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224791
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What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? : answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2016
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434172