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Measuring pension wealth

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For a multidimensional measure of land inequality in 1930s Italy : a historical-statistical analysis

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Concentration of wealth and income in post-pandemic Latin America : measurement, results, and perspective

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High inequality of wealth and income (or its concentration) is nowadays an international concern, although in many Latin American countries the only concern is to reduce poverty due to a vision associated with the trickle-down economy (Roberts 2022). From the neoliberal perspective and from that...

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Global Wealth Inequality

Zucman, Gabriel - 2019

This article reviews the recent literature on the dynamics of global wealth inequality. I first reconcile available estimates of wealth inequality in the United States. Both surveys and tax data show that wealth inequality has increased dramatically since the 1980s, with a top 1% wealth share of...

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Comparative Analysis of Poverty and Inequality in Togo : A Multidimensional Approach Based on a Wealth Index

Lawson Body, Boevi Kouglo; Baninganti, Kokou; Homevoh, Etsri - 2014

Based on a composite poverty indicator, the analysis of the level and evolution of multidimensional poverty in Togo between 1988 and 1998 reveals a downward trend using both relative and absolute poverty lines. Over the two periods studied, non-monetary poverty strongly increased in the rural...

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Measuring Wealth Mobility

Neri, Andrea - 2009

In the economic literature on mobility measurement issues are generally disregarded. The aim of the paper is to assess … paper shows that response (or measurement) errors and transitory shocks may account up to 30-50 per cent of the observed … response (or measurement) errors. In the case of Italy, the declining level of observed mobility is downward biased by the …

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Measuring Racial/Ethnic Retirement Wealth Inequality

Hou, Wenliang - 2020

As the U.S. population becomes more diverse, it will be increasingly important for policymakers addressing Social Security's solvency to understand how reliant various racial and ethnic groups will be on the program versus other sources of retirement wealth. Yet, to date, studies on retirement...

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Global Inequality When Unequal Countries Create Unequal People

Ravallion, Martin - 2018

Current global inequality measures assume that national-mean income does not matter to economic welfare at given household income, as measured in surveys. The paper questions that assumption on theoretical and empirical grounds and finds that prominent stylized facts about global inequality are...

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