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Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
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Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
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Alloparenting the investment child: A reply to responses
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Nina Bandelj
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working‐class culture and how these
Simone Varriale
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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The Need of Revision in the Inheritance and Succession Tax
International Journal of Public Finance, 2017 The aim of this study is to explain; Is to raise awareness, even a little bit, by emphasizing that the text of the law which has been practiced in the country for sixty years and which is devoted to all other provisions except death and taxes is far from
Mehmet GÜNEŞ
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Evaluation of Crypto Assets in terms of Digital Legacy Dimension and Inheritance Tax
International Journal of Public FinanceInternet technology, which has become an indispensable part of human life after the acceleration of the digitalisation process, shopping applications, social media accounts, cloud computing and finally cryptocurrencies with blockchain technology have ...
Burçin Bozdoğanoğlu
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A hybrid Tiebout model with vintage housing
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how spatial variation in housing ages affects income segregation in US cities. We develop a dynamic general equilibrium hybrid Tiebout model with durable housing that combines local public finance and urban land use theories.
Kuzey Yilmaz, Muharrem Yesilirmak
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Reporting Control Deficiencies in Repeat Internal Audit Engagements*
Accounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 7-20, March 2025.ABSTRACT This study examines the reporting of control deficiencies in repeat internal audit engagements. Experienced internal auditors were presented with a hypothetical case in which they were asked about the likelihood of reporting an internal control deficiency discovered last year but which was, “through an oversight,” not reported to company ...
Michael Favere‐Marchesi
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Acta Iuris StetinensisThe purpose of this critical gloss is to present the issues related to the issue of documenting the receipt of monetary funds by donation as a condition for obtaining exemption from inheritance and donation tax.
Wiktor Gnych-Pietrzak
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