Social Security and the Distribution of Wealth
作者:
Martin Feldstein,
期刊:
Journal of the American Statistical Association
(Taylor Available online 1976)
卷期:
Volume 71,
issue 356
页码: 800-807
ISSN:0162-1459
年代: 1976
DOI:10.1080/01621459.1976.10480950
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Each household's “total wealth” is defined here as its “fungible wealth” (i.e., net worth) plus its “social security wealth” (i.e., the present actuarial value of its potential social security benefits). Analysis of fungible wealth and total wealth from a 1963 national household survey finds that (1) the distribution of total wealth is much less concentrated than the distribution of fungible wealth; (2) the concentration of total wealth has decreased sharply since 1920, and (3) the life cycle theory of wealth accumulation is more consistent with the age-income distribution of total wealth than with the distribution of fungible wealth.
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