Wealth and Stratification Processes

Spilerman, Seymour

doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.26.1.497

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“…Again, this indicator for parental resources is most influential for gifts of money (Model 3), where the effect is three times larger compared to gifts of houses or land (Model 2). These findings are consistent with the literature on wealth portfolios in different social strata which has shown that home ownership is quite common even in lower strata (Kurz 2004), whereas the possession of large amounts of liquid assets is a privilege of higher strata (Spilerman 2000). The number of siblings, as expected, is negatively correlated with the chances of receiving transfers from parents.…”

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Family Events and the Timing of Intergenerational Transfers

Leopold

Schneider

2011

Social Forces

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. This series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science. Terms of use: Documents inThe decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly. AbstractThis research investigates how family events in adult children's lives influence the timing of their parents' financial transfers. We draw on retrospective data collected by the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and use event history models to study the effects of marriage, divorce, and childbirth on receiving large gifts from parents. We find increased chances of receiving gifts of houses or land at marriage and in the following years, at childbirth, but not at divorce. Large gifts of money are received in the year of marriage and also in the year of divorce.Our findings, on the one hand, indicate that parental gifts are triggered by adult children's economic need. On the other hand, they point to a plurality of givers' transfer motives and highlight the meanings of different types of wealth for parents, adult children, and their relationships.

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Family Events and the Timing of Intergenerational Transfers

Leopold

Schneider

2011

Social Forces

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“…Already in the 1980, the topic was described as a "sociological lacunae" (McNamee and Miller 1989). Although there has been some more sociological scholarship on the issue in the intervening 20 years, it is far less than one would expect given the relevance of the topic (Beckert 2008;Kohli 1999;Spilerman 2000). To be sure, inheritance has not always been a neglected topic.…”

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Why Is the Estate Tax so Controversial?

Beckert

2008

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There are some social issues whose significance for society nobody would seriously question but which nevertheless receive only scarce attention in sociological research. One of these is the bequest of private wealth from one generation to the next. It is currently estimated that about 550 billion dollars are transferred annually in the United States, amounting to more than 4% of the American gross national product (Havens and Schervish 1999). Not only is this a huge amount of wealth that changes ownership, but the bequest of wealth speaks to some of the core questions of sociological scholarship.

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“…Elas incluem a mobilização de redes sociais, ter famílias que permitam assumir maiores riscos, bem como outros fatores que influenciam a forma como os indivíduos participam da economia. Todavia, é muito difícil medir isso diretamente, e a maior parte da literatura que aponta nessa direção o faz por exclusão das explicações alternativas (Breen e Jonsson, 2005;Erikson e Goldthorpe, 2002;Finnie e Irvine, 2006;Piketty, 2000;Spilerman, 2000;Torche, 2014;Torche e Costa-Ribeiro, 2012;Torche e Spilerman, 2008. O que talvez seja mais importante no nosso caso é que uma dessas explicações alternativas excluídas frequentemente é a mobilidade educacional, o que indica que ter níveis elevados de educação formal sem ter as outras vantagens mencionadas pode impor um limite para o posicionamento no topo da hierarquia social.…”

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Educação e Rendimentos dos Ricos no Brasil

Medeiros

Galvão

2016

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O objetivo deste artigo é avaliar em que medida a educação pode ser considerada um dos principais determinantes da riqueza no Brasil. Definimos como ricas as pessoas no 1% mais rico da distribuição de rendimentos do trabalho. Focamos tanto na educação universitária em geral quanto nos cursos de elite, os quais são definidos como aqueles em que as chances de encontrar alguém acima da linha de riqueza são muito superiores às de outros cursos. Isso ocorre, por exemplo, com os cursos de medicina ou engenharia. Nosso interesse é na associação entre educação e riqueza, tanto no plano individual quanto no agregado, ou seja, queremos examinar como a educação aumenta as chances de um indivíduo pertencer ao 1% mais rico da distribuição dos rendimentos do trabalho e como os efeitos da educação universitária geral e de elite afetam os níveis totais de riqueza na população.Os ricos são um grupo-chave no estudo da estratificação social. As razões para estudá-los são quase autoevidentes, uma vez que eles se apropriam de uma fração desproporcional da renda de uma sociedade. Além disso, o controle dos ricos sobre recursos econômicos tende a influir também em outros domínios da vida, tais como a política e a cultura.

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Wealth and Stratification Processes

Cited by 378 publications

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Family Events and the Timing of Intergenerational Transfers

Family Events and the Timing of Intergenerational Transfers

Why Is the Estate Tax so Controversial?

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