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The Dynamics of Wealth Inequality and the Effect of Income Distribution.

PLoS ONE, 2016
The rapid increase of wealth inequality in the past few decades is one of the most disturbing social and economic issues of our time. Studying its origin and underlying mechanisms is essential for policy aiming to control and even reverse this trend.
Yonatan Berman, Eshel Ben-Jacob, Yoash Shapira   +2 more
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An Analysis of the Distribution of Wealth Across Households, 1989-2010 [PDF]

, 2012
[Excerpt] Different views about the impact of redistributive policies on long-term economic growth underlie congressional deliberations on such issues as taxation and social welfare. To help inform these policy debates, this report analyzes data from the
Levine, Linda
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Study of a model for the distribution of wealth

, 2014
An equation for the evolution of the distribution of wealth in a population of economic agents making binary transactions with a constant total amount of "money" has recently been proposed by one of us (RLR).
G. Katriel, R. López-Ruiz, R. López-Ruiz, S.M. Apenko   +3 more
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Linking wealth and household head traits via quantile multilevel models in South Africa

Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences
Orientation: This study explored how household wealth in South Africa relates to key socioeconomic traits of household heads, against the backdrop of persistent inequality and growing scholarly interest in wealth as a driver of well-being and mobility ...
Kabeya C. Mulamba
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The Household Wealth Distribution in Spain: The Role of Housing and Financial Wealth [PDF]

We analyse the distribution of household wealth in Spain using the first wave of the Spanish Survey of Household Finances, conducted by the Bank of Spain in 2002.
Francisco Azpitarte
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Detailed simulation results for some wealth distribution models in Econophysics

, 2005
In this paper we present detailed simulation results on the wealth distribution model with quenched saving propensities. Unlike other wealth distribution models where the saving propensities are either zero or constant, this model is not found to be ...
Bhattacharya, K., Manna, S. S., Mukherjee, G.   +2 more
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Inheritance and the Distribution of Wealth

Economica, 1979
next are a major cause of inequality in general and of the unequal distribution of wealth in particular. Despite the popularity, not to say antiquity, of this view, surprisingly little is known about the nature and extent of these transfers (here called bequests, but interpreted to include gifts inter vivos) or about their motivation. Similarly, models
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The distribution of wealth and redistributive policies [PDF]

In this paper we study theoretically the dynamics of the distribution of wealth in an Overlapping Generation economy with bequest and various forms of redistributive taxation. We characterize the transitional dynamics of the wealth distribution and as
Alberto Bisin, Jess Benhabib
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Systematic Literature Review: Islamic Wealth Management Perspective

Jurnal At-Tamwil
Purpose – Islamic Wealth Management is a concept and teaching that helps individuals or groups manage assets in an Islamic manner. The fundamental difference between conventional and Islamic asset management lies in the limitations of acquiring, saving ...
Muhammad Fatchullah El Islami, Hoirul Anam, Nasrudin, Jakfar Shodiq   +3 more
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Pension Wealth, Age-Wealth Profiles and the Distribution of Net Worth [PDF]

This study estimates the magnitude of pension wealth and compares pension wealth to net worth for households in the 1983 Survey of Consumer Finance (SCF).
Ann A. McDermed, Robert L. Clark, Steven G. Allen   +2 more
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