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Medicaid and Wealth: An Examination Using the NLSY79
Gittleman, Maury - Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor - 2011
Do public insurance programs crowd out private savings? I examine the relationship between Medicaid and wealth and make a contribution to the literature on this issue in three primary ways. First, I apply the instrumental-variables approach developed by Gruber and Yelowitz (1999) to a different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009292857
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Messung von Ausmaß, Intensität und Konzentration des Einkommens- und Vermögensreichtums in Deutschland
Rosemann, Martin; Tiefensee, Anita - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2013
In this paper we analyze the upper edge of income and wealth distribution in Germany with data from the German Socio …), how much income or wealth they have on average (intensity), and how these financial resources are distributed among the … the dynamics of the upper edge of income and wealth distribution. For example, we find that in comparison to the average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691323
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Messung von Ausmaß, Intensität und Konzentration des Einkommens- und Vermögensreichtums in Deutschland
Rosemann, Martin; Tiefensee, Anita - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
analyze the upper edge of income and wealth distribution in Germany with data from the German Socio·Economic Panel (SOEP … belongs to the rich part of society. Then we examine how many people are above these thresholds (extent), how much income or … upper edge of income and wealth distribution. For example, we find that in comparison to the average in Germany, civil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185780
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Messung von Ausmaß, Intensität und Konzentration des Einkommens- und Vermögensreichtums in Deutschland
Rosemann, Martin; Tiefensee, Anita - 2013
In this paper we analyze the upper edge of income and wealth distribution in Germany with data from the German Socio …), how much income or wealth they have on average (intensity), and how these financial resources are distributed among the … the dynamics of the upper edge of income and wealth distribution. For example, we find that in comparison to the average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332679
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Housing Decisions, Family Types and Gender. A look across LIS countries
Rossi, Mariacristina; Sierminska, Eva - 2015
In this paper we shall examine homeownership trends over the past 3 to 4 decades and discuss differences related to the homeownership gap for women and men, with a focus on most recent trends. We shall compare differences in the US to those in countries with different institutional structures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725446
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Does Inequality Cause Inflation? The Political Economy of Inflation, Taxation and Government Debt
Beetsma, Roel; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
of debt service and redistribute income from the rich to the poor. Consequently, inequality sows the seeds for inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792370
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Gender, Marriage, and Asset Accumulation in the United States
Schmidt, Lucie; Sevak, Purvi - Economics Department, Williams College - 2006
Wealth accumulation has important implications for the relative well-being of households. This article describes how household wealth in the United States varies by gender and family type. Evidence is found of large differences in observed wealth between single-female-headed households and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520359
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GENDER, MARRIAGE, AND ASSET ACCUMULATION IN THE UNITED STATES
Schmidt, Lucie; Sevak, Purvi - In: Feminist Economics 12 (2006) 1-2, pp. 139-166
Wealth accumulation has important implications for the relative well-being of households. This article describes how household wealth in the United States varies by gender and family type. Evidence is found of large differences in observed wealth between single-female-headed households and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005484720
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Housing decisions, family types and gender : a look across LIS countries
Rossi, Mariacristina; Sierminska, Eva - 2015
In this paper we shall examine homeownership trends over the past 3 to 4 decades and discuss differences related to the homeownership gap for women and men, with a focus on most recent trends. We shall compare differences in the US to those in countries with different institutional structures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453975
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Poverty traps in Markov models of theevolution of wealth
Blume, Lawrence E.; Durlauf, Steven N.; Lukina, Aleksandra - 2020
Poverty trap models are dynamical systems with more than one attractor. Similar dynamical systems arise in optimal growth and macroeconomic models. These systems are often studied empirically by ad hoc methods relying on intuition from deterministic systems, such as looking for multiple peaks in...
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