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still face discrimination in accessing financial services. Similarly, a higher income, wealth, and gender inequality, along … countries with high inequalities, high income, and gender inequality diminish its impact. The study also investigates how …
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Das private Vermögen in Deutschland ist vor dem Hintergrund der Erbschaftsteuerreform und der zunehmenden Privatisierung der sozialen Vorsorge verstärkt in den Blickpunkt der wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischen Diskussion gerückt. Mit den Ergebnissen der Vermögenserhebung im Rahmen des...
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Politische Unruhen, Bürgerkriege und im Extrem Völkermord sind einige der Gründe für die enttäuschende Wirtschaftsentwicklung in vielen Entwicklungsländern in den letzten Jahrzehnten, vor allem in Afrika. Perioden andauernder Gewalt beeinflussen auch die Verteilung von Einkommen in den...
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transfers to other sources of household wealth has had a sizeable effect on reducing the inequality of wealth. …
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Empirical evidence on the relationship between a country?s wealth inequality and economic growth is ambiguous. This … research on the base of the Gini-coefficient cannot generate a general relationship between wealth inequality and economic … growth. Moreover, the impact of wealth inequality on economic growth is through the supply of human capital as well as the …
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The distributions of income and wealth in countries across the world are found to possess some robust and stable features independent of the specific economic, social and political conditions of the countries. We discuss a few physics-inspired multi-agent dynamic models along with their...
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profitable for the rich than the poor, inequality increases. The model is calibrated to illustrate polarization and increasing … inequality in early modern Europe, starting from a continuous pre-industrial wealth distribution. During the early … industrializing period, when labor markets operate and capital markets do not, inequality increases and a distinct working class …
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This paper studies the determinants of inequality in an infnitehorizon general equilibrium model. Missing capital … markets, lead to two-peaked wealth distributions and high inequality. The precautionary savings, affected by the level of …
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Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds … BMIs and average state-level wealth, and an inverse relationship between BMI and wealth inequality. After controlling for … wealth and inequality, rural agricultural farmers had greater BMI values than their urban counterparts in other occupations. …
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inequality increased. We introduce new ways of approximating the effects of international flows and find that the recent increase … in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. …
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