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While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting...
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difficult or favourable events or circumstances (Moloney et al., 2012). Much of the household financial decision … gain insight into household's portfolio rebalancing responses when they have experienced a financial shock of some sort … high ownership of property in Australian household asset portfolios exposes participants' levels of wealth to property …
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Research has shown that financial illiteracy is widespread among women, and that many women are unfamiliar with even the most basic economic concepts needed to make saving and investment decisions. This gender gap in financial literacy may contribute to the differential levels of retirement...
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importance should decrease with wealth. I test these theoretical predictions for the Italian case, using the Survey of Household … Income and Wealth. The evidence is that household's initial wealth is indeed important in the decision to become an … model. Finally, conditional on becoming entrepreneurs, initial household wealth does not significantly affect the size of …
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This article considers non-unitary models of household behavior. These models suppose explicitly that households … household behavior in these models are subject to constraints that differ from the traditional Slutsky conditions. In addition …, in a certain number of specific cases, the preferences of the different household members can be identified from …
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-being inside couples. To our knowledge, this effect has never been taken into account by existing economic models of the household …
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conditions of household consumption models with varying degrees of cooperation. Using these conditions, we show independence (or …
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on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor …
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on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor …
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The dynamics of multiple time use in paid work and in household activities with housework, child rearing and DIY of … (1984-1987), where information of the household - including the husband's employment situation - is merged with regional … economic and local labour demand indicators …
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