How inheritances shape wealth distributions: An international comparison

被引：5

作者：

Boenke, Timm ^{[1
]}

Werder, Marten V. ^{[1
]}

Westermeier, Christian ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Free Univ Berlin, Sch Business & Econ, Boltzmannstr 20, D-14195 Berlin, Germany

[2] IAB, Regensburger Str 104, D-90478 Nurnberg, Germany

来源：

ECONOMICS LETTERS | 2017年 / 159卷

关键词：

Inheritance; Household wealth; Inequality; Decomposition; INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFERS; ACCUMULATION; INEQUALITY;

D O I：

10.1016/j.econlet.2017.08.007

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

We use data from the European Household Finance and Consumption Survey in order to examine the distributional effect of intergenerational wealth transfers on the net worth distribution in 8 European countries and compare it to recent findings for the US. To do so, we resort to the decomposition of the coefficient of variation as suggested and applied by Wolff (1987, 2002, 2015) and Wolff and Gittleman (2014). The results seem to imply that inheritances and gifts have a vastly equalizing effect on inequality in household wealth in all 8 countries. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：217 / 220

页数：4

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