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Although those properties are owner-occupied, if that trend continued it would cause an erosion of one of the basic wealths of the nation.
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Aging and the income value of housing wealth.
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The main analysis of housing wealth and its relationship to income and financial wealth follows prior to a concluding section.
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The 1930s, moreover, saw a rapid increase in cash wealth in the district.
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Even so, the great strength of this work is the wealth of detailed and clearly presented information that it brings together.
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Faced with a wealth of information, how does he begin to trace the path of an historical interpretation of modern times?
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Compared with the wealth of investigations on monolingual language acquisition, research on early bilingualism still has some catching up to do.
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The author is very knowledgeable and provides a wealth of data about present language practices.
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Divisions of property, to a great extent, depended on the family's size and economic wealth.
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A closer scrutiny of the wealth of some will-makers will allow us to say more.
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Finally, let us analyse the relationship between wealth status and remarriage.
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The wealth of elite women was what put them at risk of confinement.
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To better facilitate turning intellectual wealth into profitable ideas, the majority of universities have formed alliances with private companies.
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Written sources can provide a wealth of new and revealing information on the materialities of objects as the authors of this article have clearly shown.
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Relatively little wealth was invested in goods that might be used primarily to impress other members of the elite.
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Marked differences in wealth and income within the over-60 years population are not a unique feature of present-day society.
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In the case of a perfect annuity, agents annuitise all their wealth and bequeath nothing to their heirs.
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A longer life span yields smaller unintentional bequests and thus lowers the level of the young agents' wealth.
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Figure 2 illustrates this (as well as why welfare equivalent income exceeds wealth equivalent income; cf. proposition 6).
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They also coincide with wealth-equivalent income in this case.
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There are several examples of this positive correlation between private wealth and use of public resources.
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Wealth may be a proxy for networks, information, and access to outside market opportunities in the presence of various kinds of market imperfections.
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The coefficient on household wealth is negative and significant.
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As a result, they ignore the sustainable economic development that results from formation of other forms of wealth, most notably human capital.
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Afforestation is also found to strongly depend on the pressure upon land as well as on household wealth.
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We have observed earlier that mineral wealth is associated with a strengthened urban sector and a relatively small agricultural sector (table 1).
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In the collection function, the level of household wealth is negative and significant in the decision to collect.
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The basic lab design has a bargaining dyad, payoff schedules, perfect information, zero transaction costs, perfect contract enforcement, and no wealth effects.
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A wealth of data has demonstrated the specificity of stressor-symptom relationships.
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The community is based on the shared interest in the circulation of wealth for the purpose of its preservation and expansion (p. 253).
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We are discussing worlds where people differ in their ability to convert wealth into functioning.
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We find it unconvincing, however, that receiving the whole wealth endowment would engender the same level of human functioning for all individuals.
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Resources are seen as the basis for national prosperity, power, and wealth.
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There is a wealth of literature that demonstrates our ability to perceive shape or structure from motion.
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In addition, a wealth of information including nutritional value, medicinal properties and the most common methods of processing and preparation is given.
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The articles are well written, should be accessible to most interested scientists and contain a wealth of references.
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The wealth of information in these maps could have been more clearly presented.
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Although informants used a general term meaning wealth or treasure, they were referring to livestock (cattle, goats, donkeys and horses).
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Notwithstanding the relative wealth of information for historical research, this material has remained largely unexamined.
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While for some young men colonial rule offered an accelerated path to wealth and status, to others it seemed to deny a future altogether.
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Instead, she linked concentrated wealth with a communist threat.
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If the authors offer a wealth of research to "qualify the validity and reliability of data," this is one thing.
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There is a great wealth of literature on this.
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The net flow of wealth was from child to parent over a lifetime.
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They always want more children, since children are a symbol of wealth, strength and vitality.
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In this study, the first three items were best regarded as proxy for general household wealth in urban areas.
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The more high-tech the nature of the innovations, the more important the wealth of the absorbing country becomes.
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Given the time separabilities in preferences, there are important distinctions between consumption and wealth lotteries.
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According to (3), goods consumption in the planning period t is proportional to total wealth, comprising the sum of financial and human wealth.
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Another small class has much the same household income, but receives this from entrepreneurial activity or wealth ; this is labelled the petty trading class.
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We hypothesised that household educational attainment and previously generated household wealth would both increase this probability.
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The qualitative results of the preceding section tell us that inequality in consumption and wealth increases over time.
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We study the impact of a minimum consumption requirement on the rate of economic growth and the evolution of wealth distribution.
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To convey an idea of wealth and prestige, seafood is one of the primary means of illustration in this newspaper cartoon (1996).
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However, the instability of cattle ownership makes their wealth risky and their position fluid.
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Proposition 7 on the dynamics of the wealth distribution can then be modified easily to yield the following result.
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Individual saving cannot be measured directly but must be computed from other data, either as the first difference in wealth, or as income minus consumption.
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The life-cycle component of wealth inequality, however, is too small to explain the observed wealth concentration in the data.
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The k, the top 6.4 percentile wealth in 1976, is 204,824 baht in the data. 21.
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We summarize some key facts about the wealth distribution and what economic models have been able to explain so far.
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The initial condition of the model is the estimated initial distribution of wealth.
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Understanding the determinants of wealth inequality is a challenge for many economic models.
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Thus, we need to restrict our sample for estimation to the households whose current wealth approximates previous wealth.
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Bequests also play an important role in shaping wealth inequality.
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To solve this puzzle he suggests a "capitalist spirit" model, in which finitely lived consumers have wealth in the utility function.
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A crucial element not incorporated into these models is the intergenerational transmission of wealth.
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Entrepreneurs4 are a small fraction of the population (about 10%) but hold a large share of total wealth (about 40%).
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The financial expansion is faster because of higher wealth accumulation on the part of nonparticipants.
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However, with the constraints on capital demand in (4), the setup cost x cannot exceed the own wealth b either.
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Because of this friction, the amount that an entrepreneur can borrow is a function of his own wealth, which thus acts as collateral.
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Consumption increases slightly at the moment of the shock because of the transfer of resources from investment, decreasing afterward because of the negative wealth effect.
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Individuals may be different in their initial wealth, yet they are homogeneous in terms of all other aspects.
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A key feature of these figures is that only employed agents within a narrow wealth range have interior portfolio decisions.
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If each agent's endowment level increases, then the relative wealth differences between the lenders and the borrowers really decrease.
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In such a model, a redistribution of wealth among the agents should have no effect on the bond price.
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The wealth effect could also impact the allocation of labor at the farm level.
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Recent research has seen a wealth of rehabilitation work directly addressing neuropsychological damage.
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With such a wealth of material, it is no surprise that this programme was not initially examined especially closely.
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Respect, if not great influence, was available without great wealth or high office.
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Political favour did not establish so much as legitimate and reinforce strength of personality and wealth already perceived by the community and the elite.
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In economic terms such institutions emphasize the connection between their sources of wealth and the ways they displayed their identity.
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We added interaction terms between religiosity and our measures of wealth to the baseline specification.
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Studies of communication, especially of language use, have provided a wealth of empirical material and conceptual tools.
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Taking all these factors together, one can easily see that ducats were actually just about the only available store of wealth for many years.
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The personal wealth of these leaders demonstrates the power of the state, not purchase power.
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A sojourn in the colonies could, in fact, be a means of acquiring fame and wealth.
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Over most of the last 4 decades, households' wealth-income ratio did not fluctuate widely from year to year.
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Once target savers reach their wealth target, they may feel no need to save more.
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Not only does saving affect the stock of wealth, but wealth in turn influences the choice to save.
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The emphasis would be on increasing trade, increasing productivity, on a larger share for everyone rather than a struggle to redistribute existing wealth.
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They would stop the use of tax policy for social purposes, for the redistribution of wealth.
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As a centre of wealth, with resident elite groups, the town certainly provided a rich framework for sociability.
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However, despite the difference in social status between the two families, there was probably little to choose between them in terms of wealth.
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Even the moderately well-off were able to take some precautionary steps to avoid expropriation and the effects of the introduction of limits on wealth.
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How do the various classes fare in terms of participation in national wealth?
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Dedicated solely to the pursuit of wealth, it evolved no institutions beyond the ubiquitous parish guilds, of which there were at least four.
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Whenever damages are paid for harm to property in breach of a duty of care, a transfer of wealth takes place.
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In the absence of any serious challenge to the wealth and institutions that reproduce them, the upper class will survive, adapt and thrive.
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We have seen that any such claim about the distribution of wealth could not have been and can not today be legitimately sustained.
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As our national wealth increased, we have been able to devote much greater resources to these services than ever before.
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