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Housing, wealth accumulation and wealth distribution : evidence and stylized facts
Causa, Orsetta; Woloszko, Nicolas; Leite, David - 2019
This paper produces new evidence and stylised facts on housing, wealth accumulation and wealth distribution, relying on an in-depth analysis of micro-based data on household wealth across OECD countries. The analysis addresses several questions: i) How is homeownership and housing tenure...
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Intergenerational transfers : how do they shape the German wealth distribution?
Werder, Marten von - 2018
. This study adds to the discussion by providing causal estimates for the effect of transfer receipt on the savings behavior … of households. The model allows for dynamic adjustment and variations in the savings behavior over the wealth … transfer volume, the transfer incidence over the wealth distribution and the effect of the savings behavior. The results are …
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Houses divided : a model of intergenerational transfers, differential fertility and wealth inequality
Cooke, Aaron; Lee, Hyun; Zhao, Kai - 2017
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Rising wealth inequality : intergenerational links, entrepreneurship, and the decline in interest rate
İmrohoroğlu, Ayşe; Zhao, Kai - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391100
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Chapter 11 The distribution of wealth
Davies, James B.; Shorrocks, Anthony F. - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 605-675). 2000
This chapter is concerned with the distribution of personal wealth, which usually refers to the material assets that can be sold in the marketpace, although on occasion pension rights are also included. We summarise the available evidence on wealth distribution for a number of countries. This...
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Wealth distribution and optimal inheritance taxation in life-cycle economies with intergenerational transfers
Heer, Burkhard - 2000
We introduce intergenerational transfers into a general equilihrium life-cycle model in order to explain observed levels of wealth heterogeneity. In our overlapping generations model, heterogenous agents face uncertain lifetime and leave both accidental and voluntary bequests to their cinldren....
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Capital accumulation and the characteristics of private intergenerational transfers
Kurz, Mordecai - 1982
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The Role of Intergenerational Transfers in Aggregate Capital Accumulation
Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 1980
"hump" savings. A major difference between this study and previous investigations of this issue is the use of more accurate … savings. This paper suggests the importance of and need for substantially greater research and data collection on … intergenerational transfers. fife-cycle models of savings that emphasize savings for retirement as the dominant form of apical …
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The Role of Intergenerational Transfers in Aggregate Capital Accumulation
Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Summers, Lawrence H. - 2021
"hump" savings. A major difference between this study and previous investigations of this issue is the use of more accurate … savings. This paper suggests the importance of and need for substantially greater research and data collection on … intergenerational transfers. fife-cycle models of savings that emphasize savings for retirement as the dominant form of apical …
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