The Relationship Between Income, Wealth and Age in Australia

This article analyses the relationship between income, wealth, wealth‐adjusted income and age in Australia using a 2009–10 crosssectional data set. The main findings are: (i) wealth and wealth‐adjusted income generally rise with age, while income is constant across the life cycle; (ii) both income i...

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Main Authors: Tapper, Alan, Fenna, Alan
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2019
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Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140102571
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/84907
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description This article analyses the relationship between income, wealth, wealth‐adjusted income and age in Australia using a 2009–10 crosssectional data set. The main findings are: (i) wealth and wealth‐adjusted income generally rise with age, while income is constant across the life cycle; (ii) both income inequality and wealth inequality rise until mid‐life and fall thereafter, while wealth‐adjusted income inequality depends on the method of calculation used, one showing a fall in later life and another showing no fall; and (iii) after income, wealth and wealth‐adjusted income inequalities are adjusted for age, underlying inequality is lower in all three cases.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-849072021-09-16T05:28:53Z The Relationship Between Income, Wealth and Age in Australia Tapper, Alan Fenna, Alan Inequality This article analyses the relationship between income, wealth, wealth‐adjusted income and age in Australia using a 2009–10 crosssectional data set. The main findings are: (i) wealth and wealth‐adjusted income generally rise with age, while income is constant across the life cycle; (ii) both income inequality and wealth inequality rise until mid‐life and fall thereafter, while wealth‐adjusted income inequality depends on the method of calculation used, one showing a fall in later life and another showing no fall; and (iii) after income, wealth and wealth‐adjusted income inequalities are adjusted for age, underlying inequality is lower in all three cases. 2019 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/84907 10.1111/1467-8462.12326 English http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140102571 Wiley-Blackwell fulltext
spellingShingle Inequality
Tapper, Alan
Fenna, Alan
The Relationship Between Income, Wealth and Age in Australia
title The Relationship Between Income, Wealth and Age in Australia
title_full The Relationship Between Income, Wealth and Age in Australia
title_fullStr The Relationship Between Income, Wealth and Age in Australia
title_full_unstemmed The Relationship Between Income, Wealth and Age in Australia
title_short The Relationship Between Income, Wealth and Age in Australia
title_sort relationship between income, wealth and age in australia
topic Inequality
url http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140102571
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/84907