Search Results - subject:"Inheritance"

Dynamic Bequest Motives and Secondary Markets for Life Insurance

Ellis, Cameron - 2017

Life insurance contracts can be exceptionally long term and are typically written with a level premium structure. Because death risk increases with age, the actuarial value of a life insurance policy increases over time and becomes positive far enough into the policy. Life insurance is also...

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Inherited Wealth and Demographic Aging

Onder, Harun - 2017

The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly come under scrutiny. This study presents one of the first attempts to shed light on how demographic aging could shape this role. It shows that, in the absence of retirement annuities, or for a given level of annuitization, both...

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Alternatives to the Gift and Estate Tax

Duff, David G. - 2017

Following the near death experience of the federal gift and estate tax in 2010, the hundredth anniversary of the tax represents an ideal moment to reflect on the role of this tax and whether an alternative approach might be more desirable and sustainable. This Article examines four prominent...

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The Impact of Intergenerational Transfers on Household Wealth Inequality in Japan and the United States

Niimi, Yoko - 2017

To help shed light on the implications of intergenerational transfers for wealth inequality, we use data for Japan and the United States to examine whether individuals who receive intergenerational transfers from their parents are more likely to leave bequests to their children than those who do...

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Arbitration as Wealth Transfer

Gupta, Deepak - 2017

This Essay offers a fresh way to understand and talk about forced arbitration: as a wealth transfer. It argues that the rise and prevalence of forced arbitration clauses should be understood as both an outcome of and contributor to economic inequality, and that the national conversation about...

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Making Income and Property Taxes More Growth-Friendly and Redistributive in India

Joumard, Isabelle - 2017

Tax reforms are crucial to promoting inclusive growth in India. The replacement of a myriad of consumption taxes by a Goods and Services Tax (GST) will boost India's competitiveness, investment, job creation and tax compliance. The potential to raise additional revenue from taxes on goods and...

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The rise of meritocracy and the inheritance of advantage

Comerford, David; Rodríguez Mora, José Vicente; … - 2017

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The affluency to quit : how inheritances affect retirement plannings

Crusius, Tobias L.; Werder, Marten von - 2017

thereby accept costs in the form of foregone income and pension entitlements corresponding to 20-30% of the inheritance. …

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Ungleiche Mittelschichten : über Unterschiede im Immobilienvermögen und im Erbe innerhalb der Mitte Deutschlands

Korom, Philipp - 2017

this question, this article investigates differences with regard to real estate and inheritance on the basis of the … from the upper middle class (< 250 percent of the median income) not so much through inheritance or homeownership, but … inheritance only. Reduced old-age pensions may endanger these households. …

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Inheritances and the accumulation of wealth in the Eurozone

Humer, Stefan; Moser, Mathias; Schnetzer, Matthias - 2017

increase in the net wealth distribution of as much as 0:5 percentiles, while an additional percentile in the inheritance … percentiles in the income distribution to compensate a one percentile increase in the inheritance distribution, whereas this ratio …

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