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The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2020 The differentiation of housing assets is an important embodiment of wealth inequality and is also an important dimension of social stratification.
Chunling Li, Yiming Fan
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Does r-g cause wealth inequality? The case of the USA
Estudios Económicos, 2023 Piketty claims that the gap between the return to capital and the growth rate (r−g) governs the evolution of wealth inequality. This paper assesses its empirical validity using an IV approach and almost one century of US data.
David Strauss +1 more
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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 +2 more
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Inequality and Mobility Using Income, Consumption, and Wealth for the Same Individuals
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2016 Recent studies of economic inequality almost always separately examine income inequality, consumption inequality, and wealth inequality, and hence, these studies miss the important synergy between the three measures explicit in the life-cycle budget ...
Jonathan Fisher +4 more
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Wealth Inequality in the Netherlands, c. 1950-2015. The Paradox of a Northern European Welfare State
Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2017 This paper reviews the available evidence on post-war trends in Dutch private wealth inequality using a range of scattered sources. Wealth tax records suggest a substantial decline in inequality to the 1970s and, more tentatively, a gradual rise ...
Bas Van Bavel, Ewout Frankema
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Assessing Classic Maya multi-scalar household inequality in southern Belize.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Inequality is present to varying degrees in all human societies, pre-modern and contemporary. For archaeological contexts, variation in house size reflects differences in labor investments and serves as a robust means to assess wealth across populations ...
Amy E Thompson +2 more
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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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Study of the Wealth Inequality in the Minority Game [PDF]
, 2004 To demonstrate the usefulness of physical approaches for the study of realistic economic systems, we investigate the inequality of players' wealth in one of the most extensively studied econophysical models, namely, the minority game (MG).
C. N. Chen +3 more
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Do wealth and inequality associate with health in a small-scale subsistence society?
eLife, 2021 In high-income countries, one’s relative socio-economic position and economic inequality may affect health and well-being, arguably via psychosocial stress.
Adrian V Jaeggi +10 more
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Is tourism growth able to shrink economic inequalities? A DSGE analysis
Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights, 2023 The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between inbound tourism and economic inequalities (income and wealth). We construct a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) small open-economy model that includes the tourism industry and ...
Hongru Zhang, Yang Yang
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