1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910714729803321

Autore

Wolff Edward N

Titolo

Inheritances and the Distribution of Wealth or Whatever Happened to the Great Inheritance Boom? Results from the SCF and PSID / / Edward N. Wolff, Maury Gittleman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass, : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011

Washington, DC : , : U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Compensation and Working Conditions, , 2011

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white);

Collana

NBER working paper series ; no. w16840

Classificazione

D31

J1

Altri autori (Persone)

GittlemanMaury

Soggetti

Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions

Demographic Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

February 2011.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 26-28).

Sommario/riassunto

Using data from both the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we found that on average over the period from 1984 to 2007, about one fifth of American households at a given point of time received a wealth transfer and these accounted for about a quarter of their net worth. Over the lifetime, about 30 percent of households could expect to receive a wealth transfer and these would account for close to 40 percent of their net worth near time of death. However, there is little evidence of an inheritance "boom." In fact, from 1989 to 2007, the share of households in the SCF reporting a wealth transfer fell by 2.5 percentage points. The average value of inheritances received among all households did increase but at a slow pace, by 10 percent, but wealth transfers as a proportion of current net worth fell sharply over this period, from 29 to 19 percent. We also found, somewhat surprisingly, that inheritances and other wealth transfers tend to be equalizing in terms of the distribution of household wealth. Indeed, the addition of wealth transfers to other sources of household wealth has had a sizeable effect on reducing the



inequality of wealth.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991004353036407536

Autore

Jankélévitch, Vladimir

Titolo

L'austerité et la vie morale / Vladimir Jankelevitch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : Flammarion, stampa 1956

Descrizione fisica

251 p. ; 20 cm

Collana

Bibliothèque de philosophie scientifique

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Etica

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia