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International Mobility of the Wealthy in an Age of Growing Inequality

open access: yesNorteamérica, 2018
The global economy and society are affected by the rising inequality in income and wealth along with an increasing frequency and severity of financial crises, tendencies for protectionism, and fragmented globalization.
Andrés Solimano
doaj   +1 more source

Wealth effects out of financial and housing wealth: cross country and age group comparisons [PDF]

open access: yes
To explore the link between household consumption and wealth, we use a new source of harmonized microdata (Luxembourg Wealth Study). We investigate whether there are differences in wealth effects from different types of wealth and across age groups.
Eva Sierminska, Yelena Takhtamanova
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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Family Structure, Race, and Wealth Ownership: A Longitudinal Exploration of Wealth Accumulation Processes [PDF]

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Researchers have documented racial inequalities in wealth ownership and have offered a variety of explanations to account for these differences. One potentially important contributing factor that has received little attention is racial differences in ...
Lisa A. Keister
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Wealth, Top Incomes, and Inequality

open access: yes, 2017
peer reviewedAlthough it is heartening to see wealth inequality being taken seriously, key concepts are often muddled, including the distinction between income and wealth, what is included in "wealth", and facts about wealth distributions.
Nolan, Brian   +3 more
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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mammary fat globules as a source of mRNA to model alterations in the expression of some milk component genes during lactation in bovines

open access: yesBMC Veterinary Research
Background The milk's nutritional value is determined by its constituents, including fat, protein, carbohydrates, and minerals. The mammary gland's ability to produce milk is controlled by a complex network of genes.
Samar M. Shaban   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wealth and the Capitalist Spirit [PDF]

open access: yes
The wealth distribution in the U.S. is more unequal, or skewed to the right, than either the income or earnings distribution, a fact current models of saving behavior have difficulty explaining.
Francis, Johanna L.
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
wiley   +1 more source

Housing Wealth and Retirement Timing [PDF]

open access: yes
We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Office of Housing Enterprise Oversight to measure the effect of changes in housing wealth on retirement timing.
Martin Farnham, Purvi Sevak
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