Inheritance flows in Switzerland, 1911–2011

We estimate the size of inheritance flows in Switzerland over a long span of data, in close analogy to the study for France by Piketty (Q J Econ 126(3):1071–1131, 2011). We find that inheritance flows had been growing more slowly than national income up until the 1970s, but have been outpacing incom...

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Autores principales: Brülhart, Marius, Dupertuis, Didier, Moreau, Elodie
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6214267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30443501
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41937-017-0012-9
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description We estimate the size of inheritance flows in Switzerland over a long span of data, in close analogy to the study for France by Piketty (Q J Econ 126(3):1071–1131, 2011). We find that inheritance flows had been growing more slowly than national income up until the 1970s, but have been outpacing income growth since. According to our central estimates, the annual flow of inheritance amounted to 13.2% of national income in 2011. The share of total wealth that is attributable to inheritance has remained relatively stable over time, fluctuating between 45 and 60%.
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spelling pubmed-62142672018-11-13 Inheritance flows in Switzerland, 1911–2011 Brülhart, Marius Dupertuis, Didier Moreau, Elodie Swiss J Econ Stat Original Article We estimate the size of inheritance flows in Switzerland over a long span of data, in close analogy to the study for France by Piketty (Q J Econ 126(3):1071–1131, 2011). We find that inheritance flows had been growing more slowly than national income up until the 1970s, but have been outpacing income growth since. According to our central estimates, the annual flow of inheritance amounted to 13.2% of national income in 2011. The share of total wealth that is attributable to inheritance has remained relatively stable over time, fluctuating between 45 and 60%. Springer International Publishing 2018-03-06 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6214267/ /pubmed/30443501 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41937-017-0012-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Inheritance flows in Switzerland, 1911–2011
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6214267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30443501
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