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Tiefensee, Anita; Westermeier, Christian - 2016

Private wealth is a crucial factor for the economic well-being of households. Key determinants of private wealth include intergenerational wealth transfers (gifts and inheritances), which are gaining importance since 1990, as research suggests. We conduct a detailed investigation of the...

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How inheritances shape wealth distributions : an international comparison

Bönke, Timm; Werder, Marten von; Westermeier, Christian - 2016

We use data from the European Household Finance and Consumption Survey in order to examine the distributional effect of intergenerational wealth transfers on the net worth distribution in 8 European countries and compare it to recent findings for the US. To do so, we resort to the decomposition...

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Intergenerational transfers : how do they shape the German wealth distribution?

Werder, Marten von - 2018

This paper uses SOEP data to study the distributional effect of intergenerational transfers on the wealth distribution of German households. Similar to most other central European countries, Germany is likely to face a period of increasing aggregate bequest flows. At the same time, there is an...

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Erbschaft und Eigenleistung im Vermögen der Deutschen : eine Verteilungsanalyse

Bönke, Timm; Corneo, Giacomo; Westermeier, Christian - 2015

This paper investigates the role of inheritance in the distribution of wealth in Germany. Recently collected survey … data allow us to compute inheritance - wealth ratios for various quantiles based on several assumptions concerning the …

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Love and money with inheritance : marital sorting by labor income and inherited wealth in the modern partnership

Pasteau, Etienne; Zhu, Junyi - 2018

affected by inheritance distribution. The relative attraction derived from inherited wealth and acquired human capital in …, covering both labor income and inheritance. This paper studies the concentration and substitutability of these two traits in … outcomes seen in France. By assuming a sequential revelation of inheritance and labor income in marital sorting, we develop a …

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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change : evidence from the auto industry

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Poverty traps in Markov models of theevolution of wealth

Blume, Lawrence E.; Durlauf, Steven N.; Lukina, Aleksandra - 2020

Poverty trap models are dynamical systems with more than one attractor. Similar dynamical systems arise in optimal growth and macroeconomic models. These systems are often studied empirically by ad hoc methods relying on intuition from deterministic systems, such as looking for multiple peaks in...

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The marginal utility of income

Layard, Peter R. G. (contributor); Mayraz, Guy (contributor) - 2007

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Bordin Bordeerath - 2023

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