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We analyze the consumption and wealth inequality in an OLG model with mandatory pension systems. Our framework features … consumption inequality and wealth inequality. Second, a pension system reform from a defined benefit to a defined contribution … works to reinforce consumption inequality and reduce wealth inequality. Third, minimum pension benefits are able to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876189
We analyze the consumption and wealth inequality in an OLG model with mandatory pension systems. Our framework features … consumption inequality and wealth inequality. Second, a pension system reform from a defined benefit to a defined contribution … works to reinforce consumption inequality and reduce wealth inequality. Third, minimum pension benefits are able to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872162
We analyze the consumption and wealth inequality in an OLG model with mandatory pension systems. Our framework features … consumption inequality and wealth inequality. Second, a pension system reform from a defined benefit to a defined contribution … works to reinforce consumption inequality and reduce wealth inequality. Third, minimum pension benefits are able to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872184
human wealth. The latter mitigates permanent-income inequality, though its influence is diminished by the growing importance … of assets in lifetime wealth. Average expenditures and CE inequality roughly doubled between 1983 and 2016 and, to weigh … consumption, as well as uncertainty and demographic composition. Rising inequality has offset about 1/4 of the welfare gains from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014536952
human wealth. The latter mitigates permanent‐income inequality, though its influence is diminished by the growing importance … of assets in lifetime wealth. Average expenditures and CE inequality roughly doubled between 1983 and 2016 and, to weigh … consumption, as well as uncertainty and demographic composition. Rising inequality has offset about 1/4 of the welfare gains from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013382060
among the wealthy, while owner-occupied housing is crucial for middle groups, so higher stock prices raise wealth inequality … while house price increases do the opposite. Inheritances exacerbate absolute wealth inequality but reduce rel …-ative inequality. Wealth inequality declined in advanced Western countries during the first half of the 20th century, then stabilized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014564314
economic development. Although contemporary inequality is much lower than early 20th-century figures, the 'real' wealth of …Despite its relevance in 19th-century economics, wealth -its accumulation, composition, and distribution- has largely …, Italy presented a historically high value of total private wealth but had relatively small relevance in total bequests flows …
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The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly become under scrutiny. This study presents one of the … annuities, or for a given level of annuitization, both increasing longevity and decreasing fertility should reduce the inherited … share of total wealth in a given economy. Thus, aging is not likely to explain a recent surge in this share in some advanced …
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among the wealthy, while owner-occupied housing is crucial for middle groups, so higher stock prices raise wealth inequality … while house price increases do the opposite. Inheritances exacerbate absolute wealth inequality but reduce rel …-ative inequality. Wealth inequality declined in advanced Western countries during the first half of the 20th century, then stabilized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015047235
possibility of changing their hierarchical position in systems such as wealth, power, prestige, education, and health. Cultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012429714