How inheritances shape wealth distributions: an international comparison

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2017.08.007MaRDI QIDQ1782437zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Timm Bönke, Marten v. Werder, Christian Westermeier

Publication date 20 September 2018

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/10419/148546

zbMATH Keywords

decompositioninequalityinheritancehousehold wealth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Economic growth models (91B62)

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