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Income, Wealth and Consumption Inequality
Bonsang, Eric; Van den Bosch, Karel; Perelman, Sergio
2005In Börsch-Supan, Axel; Brugiavini, Agar; Jürges, Hendrik et al. (Eds.) Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
 

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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 center :
CREPP - Centre de Recherche en Économie Publique et de la Population - ULiège
Disciplines :
Economic systems & public economics
Author, co-author :
Bonsang, Eric
Van den Bosch, Karel
Perelman, Sergio  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC-Ecole de gestion : UER > Economie publique appliquée
Language :
English
Title :
Income, Wealth and Consumption Inequality
Publication date :
2005
Main work 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), Mannheim, Germany
ISBN/EAN :
3-00-015812-X
Pages :
325-331
Funders :
FP6
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