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Reference : Income, Wealth and Consumption Inequality


	Document type :	Parts of books : Contribution to collective works
	Discipline(s) :	Business & economic sciences : Economic systems & public economics
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/40491

Title :	Income, Wealth and Consumption Inequality
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Bonsang, Eric [ > > ]
	Van den Bosch, Karel [ > > ]
	Perelman, Sergio [Université de Liège - ULg > HEC-Ecole de gestion de l'ULg : UER > Economie publique appliquée >]
Publication date :	2005
Main document title :	Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
Author, co-author :	Börsch-Supan, Axel
	Brugiavini, Agar
	Jürges, Hendrik
	Mackenbach, Johan
	Siegrist, Johannes
	Weber, Guglielmo
Publisher :	Mannheim Research Institutute for the Economics of Aging (MEA)
Pages :	325-331
ISBN :	3-00-015812-X
City :	Mannheim
Abstract :	[en] The purpose is to try to understand what is the real situation of families and individuals across countries and socio-economic categories. For those of them still at work we are interested to know how they are preparing for old days’ consumption, and, for those already retired, how they meet their old age needs. We know that for some of them, facing liquidity constraints or bad health, consumption will be restricted, whereas others will be able to save from their current income, while a third group will be composed of net dissavers. In this contribution, we are particularly interested in the distributive issues pertaining to these three dimensions taken together. In the first section we explain some data issues and methodological choices. The second section is devoted to the presentation of Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients by macro-regions and countries, and the third section to a comparative study of I-C-W distribution across age categories. Some conclusions and potential lines of research for the future end this contribution.
Research units :	Centre de Recherche en Économie Publique et de la Population - C.R.E.P.P
Funders :	FP6
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/40491

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