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century, with separate consideration of income and wealth. We analyse the drivers of the changes in inequality and possible …
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wealth distribution. Life changing situations such as getting divorced or losing one’s job have a statistically significant …
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with respect to wealth holdings and financial decisions. Immigrant household heads hold less net wealth than native, but … only above the median of the wealth distribution, with housing as the main driver. Immigrant status reduces the likelihood … worsened the condition of immigrants in terms of wealth holdings, home ownership, and financial fragility. …
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This paper investigates the impact of firm-level collective bargaining on firms' investment in intangible assets and, specifically R&D. While standard hold-up theories predict a negative effect of organized labour on intangible investments, the inclusion of pay-for-performance schemes in...
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We investigate the explanatory factors that have contributed to changing wealth levels and the gender wealth gap in … composition, and marital status on wealth accumulation. Using individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel … results show that real mean wealth levels for the working age population have been decreasing for both women and men since …
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This paper studies to what extent banning first-generation women from aborting affected the fertility of second-generation individuals who did not face such legal constraint. Using multiple censuses from Romania, I follow men and women born around the 1966 Romanian abortion ban to study the...
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We offer a review of methods that have been employed to provide poverty estimates of poverty in contexts where household consumption data are unavailable or missing. These contexts range from completely missing and partially missing consumption data in cross sectional household surveys, to...
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There is an increasingly stronger demand for more frequent and accurate poverty estimates, despite the oftentimes unavailable household consumption data. We offer a review of alternative imputation methods that have been employed to provide poverty estimates in such contexts. These range from...
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decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … wealth, particularly for longer durations of vulnerability. Higher education levels generally exhibit a stronger lack of … adaptation. The lack of adaptation to vulnerability is, however, similar at different education levels for subjective wealth. We …
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This paper uses a matching method to provide an estimate of the nativity wealth gap among older households in Europe …. This approach does not require imposing any functional form on wealth and avoids validity-out-of-the-support assumptions …; furthermore, it allows not only the estimation of the mean of the wealth gap but also its distribution for the common …
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