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individuals' fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality …'s contribution highlights the importance of 'intuitive' measures of political matters such as wealth inequality. It further indicates …This paper seeks to understand whether the way in which inequality is communicated through measurements influences …
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institutions for understanding intergenerational wealth dynamics and the asymptotic tendency of wealth inequality. The focal … inequality. State tax and transfer policies also have important effects on wealth inequality. The result that reductions in the … estate tax exclusion can substantially increase wealth inequality provides a context for current public policy debates. …
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and mortgage decisions to investigate the degree to which the wealth inequality in the United States is driven by the home … means of wealth creation. We construct and calibrate a quantitative general equilibrium lifecycle model with homeownership … deductibility contributes to the heavily skewed distribution of wealth in the United States using data from the Survey of Consumer …
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here to be positively related with family size. The relationship between material inequality and heath is the subject of … considerable debate, and there was an inverse relationship between material inequality and stature. The paper also supports a bio …
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, stocks of wealth, economic equality, and economic security) for 14 OECD countries for the 1980-2007 period. It finds that in …
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This report has two main objectives. The first is to outline the development of the methodology for the measurement of economic security in the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and to provide updated estimates of the Index of Economic Security over the 1980-2007 period for seven developed...
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This report looks at how the economic crisis has unfolded in Canada and what will be the impacts on economic wellbeing. The shortfall is estimated to be approximately $12,000 ($2007) per capita. In other words, given no economic crisis, GDP per capita in Canada would have likely been $1,736...
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, stocks of wealth, economic equality and economic security) for Canada and the provinces for the 1981-2008 period. It finds … GDP per capita. Both the consumption and wealth domains experienced solid advances over the period, but these developments …
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In A Future for Socialism (1994), John Roerrre'r argues that the highly unequal distribution of capital wealth under … wealth on its preferred level of public bad is determined by the elasticities of substitution in the production and utility …
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used to establish patterns of wealth inequality within countries. Imputations are again performed for countries lacking … cent. Between-country differences in wealth are two-thirds of global inequality according to the Gini coefficient …We provide the first estimate of the level and distribution of global household wealth. Mean assets and debts within …
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