Household Wealth and its Distribution in the Netherlands, 1854-2019
We analyze the evolution of aggregate household wealth, its composition, and top wealth shares since the mid-19th century for the Netherlands, a country which played a significant role in economic history. The main forces at play are the size and variation of colonial wealth up until WWII, and the introduction of a –particularly strong– pension system thereafter. We show that the wealth-income ratio followed the familiar U-shaped pattern over the 20th century. The Netherlands, however, had the largest wealth-income ratio on record, growing since the mid-1850s, driven by industrialization and b... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | preprint |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
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Schlagwörter: | Wealth inequality / wealth distribution / household wealth / JEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D3 - Distribution / JEL: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics/E.E2 - Consumption / Saving / Production / Investment / Labor Markets / and Informal Economy / JEL: G - Financial Economics / [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27194057 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04104429 |