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Characterizing Wealth Inequality in Cryptocurrencies [PDF]
Frontiers in Blockchain, 2021 Cryptocurrencies often tend to maintain a publically accessible ledger of all transactions. This open nature of the transactional ledger allows us to gain macroeconomic insight into the USD 1 Trillion crypto economy.
Ashish Rajendra Sai +2 more
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Wealth Inequality and Accumulation [PDF]
Annual Review of Sociology, 2017 Research on wealth inequality and accumulation and the data upon which it relies have expanded substantially in the twenty-first century. Although the field has experienced rapid growth, conceptual and methodological challenges remain. We begin by discussing two major unresolved methodological concerns facing wealth research: how to address challenges
Alexandra Killewald, Fabian T Pfeffer
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How Wealth Inequality Affects Happiness: The Perspective of Social Comparison
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Since Easterlin pointed out that economic growth in nations does not guarantee increasing happiness for the average citizen, the underlying reason has remained controversial.
Lingxi Gao +3 more
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Augmented wealth in Switzerland: the influence of pension wealth on wealth inequality [PDF]
Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2020 Entitlements for social security and occupational pensions present a major wealth component and play a central role for financial security. However, most individual-level data lacks information on pension wealth.
Ursina Kuhn
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The Wealth Inequality of Nations [PDF]
American Sociological Review, 2021 Comparative research on income inequality has produced several frameworks to study the institutional determinants of income stratification. In contrast, no such framework and much less empirical evidence exist to explain cross-national differences in wealth inequality.
Fabian T. Pfeffer, Nora Waitkus
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Comparing Child Wealth Inequality Across Countries
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2021 This article compares the wealth situation of children across fourteen countries. Children experience lower levels of wealth than the rest of the population, seniors in particular.
Fabian T. Pfeffer, Nora Waitkus
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The Evolution of Inequality in Latin America in the 21st Century: What are the patterns, drivers and causes? [PDF]
PSL Quarterly Review, 2018 The paper analyses the evolution of inequality for the largest economies of the Latin American region in the 21st century, with separate consideration of income and wealth. The drivers of changes in inequality and possible underlying causes are examined,
Francesco Bogliacino +1 more
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A new approach to social inequality: inequality of income and wealth in South Korea
The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2020 This paper attempts to provide a new approach to social inequality, focusing on income and wealth inequality and the relationship between income inequality and wealth inequality.
Kwang-Yeong Shin
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WEALTH INEQUALITY: DATA AND MODELS [PDF]
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2005 In the United States wealth is highly concentrated and very unequally distributed: the richest 1% hold one third of the total wealth in the economy. Understanding the determinants of wealth inequality is a challenge for many economic models. We summarize some key facts about the wealth distribution and what economic models have been able to explain so ...
Marco Cagetti, Mariacristina De Nardi
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Market integration, income inequality, and kinship system among the Mosuo of China
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2023 Increased access to defensible material wealth is hypothesised to escalate inequality. Market integration, which creates novel opportunities in cash economies, provides a means of testing this hypothesis.
Siobhán M. Mattison +9 more
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