Commissioned by the G20 South Africa Presidency | Inequality is one of the most urgent concerns in the world today, generating many other problems in economies, societies, polities and the environment.
Source: G20 Reports.
The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is a representative repeated survey that has been running since 1984. Every year, on behalf of DIW Berlin, people from households throughout Germany are interviewed by the survey institute. The data provide information on questions about income, employment, education,...
Realtime Inequality - Who Benefits from Income and Wealth Growth in the United States?
Realtime Inequality provides the first timely statistics on how economic growth is distributed across groups. When new growth numbers come out each quarter, the economists from Berekely show how each income and...
The gap between rich and poor, the worldwide rise of populists, the distribution of burdens in the fight against climate change, unfairly distributed educational opportunities - current debates are always about inequality. The connections are complex, but there is still a lack of scientifically soun...
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Intergenerational wealth transmission and homeownership in Europe–a comparative perspective
Abstract
The literature on social and wealth inequality has long acknowledged the importance of intergenerational wealth transmission (IWT) to inequality in homeownership tenure. However, it has paid insu...