Private wealth holdings are likely to become an increasingly important determinant in the job exit decision of elderly … workers. Net wealth may correlate with worker's characteristics that also determine the exit out of a job. It is therefore … (marginal) effect of wealth on the job exit rate. But even with a rich set of regressors the question remains whether there are …

work will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. …

Combining a standard measure of concern about low relative wealth and a standard measure of relative risk aversion … economists. We obtain two results: (1) Holding individual i’s wealth and his rank in the wealth distribution constant, the … wealth of the individuals who are wealthier than he is. (2) If relative deprivation enters the individual’s utility function …