International perspectives on household wealth

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International perspectives on household wealth

edited by Edward N. Wolff

E. Elgar, c2006

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"In association with the Levy Economics Institute"

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

The contributors to this comprehensive book compile and analyse the latest data available on household wealth using, as case studies, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Finland during the 1990s and into the twenty-first century. The authors show that in the US, trends are highlighted in terms of wealth holdings, among the low-income population, along with changes in wealth polarization, racial differences in wealth holdings, and the dynamics of portfolio choices. The consensus between the authors is that wealth inequality has generally risen among these OECD countries since the early 1980s, although Germany stands out as an exception. In the case of the US, it is also noted that wealth holdings have generally failed to improve among low-income families and that the racial wealth gap widened during the late 1980s. International Perspectives on Household Wealth also contains new results on a number of topics, including measures and changes of wealth polarization in the US, measurement and changes of portfolio span in the US, asset holdings of low-income households in the US, and the effects of parental resources on asset holdings in Chile. Academic, government, and public policy economists in OECD countries, as well as those in so-called middle-income countries around the world, will find much to engage them within this book. It will also appeal to academics and researchers of international and welfare economics and other social scientists interested in the issue of inequality.

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Contents: Foreword Dimitri B. Papadimitriou 1. International Comparisons of Wealth: Methodological Issues and a Summary of Findings Edward N. Wolff PART I: WEALTH CHANGES IN NORTH AMERICA 2. A Rolling Tide: Changes in the Distribution of Wealth in the US, 1989-2001 Arthur B. Kennickell 3. Who Shared in the Growth of Wealth in the 1990s? Subpopulation Trends in US Household Wealth Holdings John L. Czajka, Scott Cody and Daniel Kasprzyk 4. Changes in Household Wealth in the 1980s and 1990s in the United States Edward N. Wolff 5. The Evolution of Wealth Inequality in Canada, 1984-1999 Rene Morissette, Xuelin Zhang and Marie Drolet PART II: WEALTH INEQUALITY IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES 6. Inequality of the Distribution of Personal Wealth in Germany, 1973-98 Richard Hauser and Holger Stein 7. Household Wealth Distribution in Italy in the 1990s Andrea Brandolini, Luigi Cannari, Giovanni D'Alessio and Ivan Faiella 8. On Household Wealth Trends in Sweden Over the 1990s N. Anders Klevmarken 9. Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth: Finland, 1987-98 Markus Jantti PART III: OTHER TYPES OF WEALTH INEQUALITY 10. Parental Wealth Effects on Living Standards and Asset Holdings: Results from Chile Florencia Torche and Seymour Spilerman 11. Trends and Turbulence: Allocations and Dynamics of American Family Portfolios, 1984-2001 Elena Gouskova, F. Thomas Juster and Frank P. Stafford 12. Is Wealth Becoming More Polarized in the United States? Conchita D'Ambrosio and Edward N. Wolff Index

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