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The Distribution of Wealth with Uncertain Income

Economica, 2003
It is well known that an uncertain income stream will induce individuals to save if they are forward‐looking. In this paper we investigate the consequences of such saving on the distribution of wealth among households. The inquiry is motivated by the fact that both the dispersion of the US wealth distribution and the variance of transitory income have ...
Irvine, I., Wang, SS
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The Distribution of Income and Wealth in Ireland

2021
Abstract Ensuring a fair and efficient distribution of economic resources in society is one of the most important public policy challenges facing democratic governments. This chapter notes how the emergence of new and better data on the composition and distribution of income and wealth has heightened interest in economic inequality. Data
Micheál L. Collins, Aidan Regan
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Econophysics of Income and Wealth Distributions

2013
The distribution of wealth and income is never uniform, and philosophers and economists have tried for years to understand the reasons and formulate remedies for such inequalities. This book introduces the elegant and intriguing kinetic exchange models that physicists have developed to tackle these issues.
Chakrabarti, Bikas K., Chakraborti, Anirban, Chakravarty, Satya R., Chatterjee, Arnab   +4 more
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Capitalism and the Distribution of Income and Wealth

Monthly Review, 1987
In the beginning, capitalism came into a world of traditional societies based on small-scale peasant and artisan production. Trading relations between regions and, locally, between town and country, together with their associated monetary and credit arrangements, were already well-developed.
Paul M. Sweezy, Harry Magdoff
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THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME AND WEALTH IN JAPAN

Review of Income and Wealth, 1992
This paper reviews research on the distribution of income and wealth in Japan, identifies sources of data on income and wealth, and describes limitations of these data. Evidence that Japan's poorest income groups are relatively well‐off is convincing, but there is less evidence that the overall distribution of income in Japan is more equal than in ...
John Bauer, Andrew Mason
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The Variability in the Distribution of Wealth and Income

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1909
There is no generally accepted method of measuring the concentration of wealth, 416.—The methods of Lorenz, 417, Pareto, 419, and Watkins, 427, explained and analyzed.—The coefficient of variability, as used by statistical biologists; suggested as a good measure, 429.—Application of that measure to income statistics, 436, and to wealth statistics of ...
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IV. Distribution of Income and Wealth

Japanese Economic Studies, 1976
As economic growth has slowed down, there has been a general revival of interest in the problems of income distribution. While the economy grew rapidly, people were interested in making the economic pie as large as possible. Now that a certain income level has been achieved, they are showing growing interest in its distribution.
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Income and Wealth Distributions in Money Exchange Models

2010 International Conference on E-Business and E-Government, 2010
The empirical works demonstrate that wealth distribution and income distribution have very similar characteristics. This fact makes some researchers fall into a confusion of the two distributions. As important economic variables, wealth and income are quite different in both concept and measurement.
Yan Xu, Liangpeng Guo, Yougui Wang
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Aspects of Distribution of Wealth and Income

1994
The Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction D.B.Papadimitriou - PART 1: INCOME AND WEALTH DISTRIBUTION IN THE USA - Factors Affecting Household Saving Behaviour: an Introductory Analysis J.N.Morgan & F.T.Juster - Comment R.B.Avery - The Relationship between Poverty and Household Type
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The Distribution of Income and Wealth

2016
Fabio Clementi, Mauro Gallegati
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