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A method to impute consumption expenditure inequality between wealth groups in the Survey of Consumer Finances is … provided, allowing for measurement error that is correlated with income and wealth. Identification is derived from observing … between top and bottom wealth quintiles is estimated to have increased by 50% between 2004 and 2013, indicating that observed …
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This paper is about “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” by Thomas Piketty. It identifies his central macroeconomic claims and examines them, arguing that the contentions are theoretically and empirically unwarranted.
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Globalisation has a major impact on the levels and distribution of wealth. The financial markets are highly integrated … wealth over the past 25 years. Nonetheless, this has not led to an equally large increase in property income because the … decrease in rates of return seems to contradict claims that, due to an increase in both financial and inherited wealth, we are …
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This paper estimates rates of return across the gross wealth distribution in eight European countries. Like … differential saving rates, differential rates of return matter for Post Keynesian theory, because they impact the income and wealth … wealth differentiates between three socioeconomic groups: 30% are asset-poor, 65% are middle-class home owners, and the top 5 …
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