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Introduction: Wealth, Inequality and Redistribution in Capitalist Societies
This special issue addresses the question of why high levels of wealth inequality in many countries are not met with greater public discontent and...
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“Caught in the Middle! Wealth Inequality and Conflict over Redistribution”
A vast literature documents that wealth inequality has risen throughout advanced democracies, especially the accumulation of wealth among the rich....
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Wealth inequality and democracy
Scholars have studied the relationship between land inequality, income inequality, and democracy extensively, but have reached contradictory...
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Is there a Green Dividend of National Redistribution?
CO 2 emissions are disproportionately caused by more affluent consumers. In the political debate, this fact has triggered the demand for income...
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Left and right: a tale of two tails of the wealth distribution
We study a model of wealth accumulation in altruistic lineages, in which households face uninsurable risk, investment indivisibilities and borrowing...
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On the distribution of lifetime wealth accumulation
I derive a stationary distribution of lifetime wealth accumulation factor in a model featuring inheritance of productivity, wealth, and health...
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Pension Wealth and the Gender Wealth Gap
We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account employment characteristics of...
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How Sustainable is Need-Based Redistribution?
This chapter examines the economic sustainability of need-based income redistribution via the welfare state. We model the welfare state as an...
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The distribution of wealth: an agent-based approach to examine the effect of estate taxation, skill inheritance, and the Carnegie Effect
Wealth inequality has been a topic of recent interest worldwide. One means to address wealth inequality may be through estate taxation. To study the...
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Population aging and wealth inequality
Much effort has been devoted to exploring the consequence of population aging on economic growth. Little attention is paid to its impact on income...
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Conditional wealth to estimate association of wealth mobility with health and human capital in low- and middle-income country cohorts
Temporally harmonized asset indices allow the study of changes in relative wealth (mean, variance, social mobility) over time and its association...
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Tax redistribution offset? Effect of marital choices on income inequality
This paper examines the relationship between marital sorting and income inequality in Switzerland using individual tax data. We find that assortative...
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When and How Information About Economic Inequality Affects Attitudes Towards Redistribution
Perceived economic inequality is positively associated with public support for policies to reduce it. However, providing information about economic...
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Inclusive wealth footprint for cities in Japan: regional clusters for sustainable development
Cities play a crucial role in regional sustainable development through trade linkages with surrounding economies. This study extends the inclusive...
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Et Tu, Brute? Wealth Inequality and the Political Economy of Authoritarian Replacement
What motivates elite factions to seek to replace an authoritarian incumbent? In this article, I provide a political economy theory of authoritarian...
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A false divide? Providing information about inequality aligns preferences for redistribution between right- and left-wing voters
Are differences in preferences for redistribution between right- and left-wing voters amplified because of misperceptions of inequality? To address...
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Wealth Accumulation and the Gender Wealth Gap Across Couples’ Legal Statuses and Matrimonial Property Regimes in France
This paper examines wealth accumulation among couple-headed households and investigates changes in within-household inequality over time and across...
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A Tullock Index for assessing the effectiveness of redistribution
I propose two alternative versions of a “Tullock Index” for assessing the effectiveness of income or wealth redistribution. In the spirit of...
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An analysis of transnational transfer of wealth through cross-border financial transactions
Cross-border financial transactions in fiat currencies facilitate transfer of wealth in real terms from the exporting to the importing country. The...
