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disparities in income, employment, homeownership, education, access to credit, and retirement savings - all factors that … other sources, this paper presents seven economic facts about the racial wealth gap in the U.S. We present data on racial … between Black households and White households. While none of the economic factors listed fully explains the racial wealth gap …
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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 … addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional well-being in Germany. Our analysis shows that more than half of the … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth. -- Affluence ; multidimensional measurement ; mobility ; elites …
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German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for … distribution of income has become more concentrated at the top, the concentration at the top of the multidimensional well …-being distribution has decreased over time. Moreover, health as well as life satisfaction contribute quite substantially to …
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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 … addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional well-being in Germany. Our analysis shows that more than half of the … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146473
considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional well-being in Germany. Our analysis shows that more than half of the … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195699
considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional well-being in Germany. Our analysis shows that more than half of the … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825579
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/10011288530
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
In spite of the well-known wide disparities in wealth and in objective measures of health like mortality in countries … like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test … and correct for reporting heterogeneity in sixteen domains of self-assessed health by wealth and race among elderly South …
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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 …We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence …
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