Examples of wealth

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Aging and the income value of housing wealth.
The main analysis of housing wealth and its relationship to income and financial wealth follows prior to a concluding section.
The 1930s, moreover, saw a rapid increase in cash wealth in the district.
Even so, the great strength of this work is the wealth of detailed and clearly presented information that it brings together.
Faced with a wealth of information, how does he begin to trace the path of an historical interpretation of modern times?
Compared with the wealth of investigations on monolingual language acquisition, research on early bilingualism still has some catching up to do.
The author is very knowledgeable and provides a wealth of data about present language practices.
Divisions of property, to a great extent, depended on the family's size and economic wealth.
A closer scrutiny of the wealth of some will-makers will allow us to say more.
Finally, let us analyse the relationship between wealth status and remarriage.
The wealth of elite women was what put them at risk of confinement.
To better facilitate turning intellectual wealth into profitable ideas, the majority of universities have formed alliances with private companies.
Written sources can provide a wealth of new and revealing information on the materialities of objects as the authors of this article have clearly shown.
Relatively little wealth was invested in goods that might be used primarily to impress other members of the elite.
Marked differences in wealth and income within the over-60 years population are not a unique feature of present-day society.
In the case of a perfect annuity, agents annuitise all their wealth and bequeath nothing to their heirs.
A longer life span yields smaller unintentional bequests and thus lowers the level of the young agents' wealth.
Figure 2 illustrates this (as well as why welfare equivalent income exceeds wealth equivalent income; cf. proposition 6).
They also coincide with wealth-equivalent income in this case.
There are several examples of this positive correlation between private wealth and use of public resources.
Wealth may be a proxy for networks, information, and access to outside market opportunities in the presence of various kinds of market imperfections.
The coefficient on household wealth is negative and significant.
As a result, they ignore the sustainable economic development that results from formation of other forms of wealth, most notably human capital.
Afforestation is also found to strongly depend on the pressure upon land as well as on household wealth.
We have observed earlier that mineral wealth is associated with a strengthened urban sector and a relatively small agricultural sector (table 1).
In the collection function, the level of household wealth is negative and significant in the decision to collect.
The basic lab design has a bargaining dyad, payoff schedules, perfect information, zero transaction costs, perfect contract enforcement, and no wealth effects.
A wealth of data has demonstrated the specificity of stressor-symptom relationships.
The community is based on the shared interest in the circulation of wealth for the purpose of its preservation and expansion (p. 253).
We are discussing worlds where people differ in their ability to convert wealth into functioning.
We find it unconvincing, however, that receiving the whole wealth endowment would engender the same level of human functioning for all individuals.
Resources are seen as the basis for national prosperity, power, and wealth.
There is a wealth of literature that demonstrates our ability to perceive shape or structure from motion.
In addition, a wealth of information including nutritional value, medicinal properties and the most common methods of processing and preparation is given.
The articles are well written, should be accessible to most interested scientists and contain a wealth of references.
The wealth of information in these maps could have been more clearly presented.
Although informants used a general term meaning wealth or treasure, they were referring to livestock (cattle, goats, donkeys and horses).
Notwithstanding the relative wealth of information for historical research, this material has remained largely unexamined.
While for some young men colonial rule offered an accelerated path to wealth and status, to others it seemed to deny a future altogether.
Instead, she linked concentrated wealth with a communist threat.
If the authors offer a wealth of research to "qualify the validity and reliability of data," this is one thing.
There is a great wealth of literature on this.
The net flow of wealth was from child to parent over a lifetime.
They always want more children, since children are a symbol of wealth, strength and vitality.
In this study, the first three items were best regarded as proxy for general household wealth in urban areas.
The more high-tech the nature of the innovations, the more important the wealth of the absorbing country becomes.
Given the time separabilities in preferences, there are important distinctions between consumption and wealth lotteries.
According to (3), goods consumption in the planning period t is proportional to total wealth, comprising the sum of financial and human wealth.
Another small class has much the same household income, but receives this from entrepreneurial activity or wealth ; this is labelled the petty trading class.
We hypothesised that household educational attainment and previously generated household wealth would both increase this probability.
The qualitative results of the preceding section tell us that inequality in consumption and wealth increases over time.
We study the impact of a minimum consumption requirement on the rate of economic growth and the evolution of wealth distribution.
To convey an idea of wealth and prestige, seafood is one of the primary means of illustration in this newspaper cartoon (1996).
However, the instability of cattle ownership makes their wealth risky and their position fluid.
Proposition 7 on the dynamics of the wealth distribution can then be modified easily to yield the following result.
Individual saving cannot be measured directly but must be computed from other data, either as the first difference in wealth, or as income minus consumption.
The life-cycle component of wealth inequality, however, is too small to explain the observed wealth concentration in the data.
The k, the top 6.4 percentile wealth in 1976, is 204,824 baht in the data. 21.
We summarize some key facts about the wealth distribution and what economic models have been able to explain so far.
The initial condition of the model is the estimated initial distribution of wealth.
Understanding the determinants of wealth inequality is a challenge for many economic models.
Thus, we need to restrict our sample for estimation to the households whose current wealth approximates previous wealth.
Bequests also play an important role in shaping wealth inequality.
To solve this puzzle he suggests a "capitalist spirit" model, in which finitely lived consumers have wealth in the utility function.
A crucial element not incorporated into these models is the intergenerational transmission of wealth.
Entrepreneurs4 are a small fraction of the population (about 10%) but hold a large share of total wealth (about 40%).
The financial expansion is faster because of higher wealth accumulation on the part of nonparticipants.
However, with the constraints on capital demand in (4), the setup cost x cannot exceed the own wealth b either.
Because of this friction, the amount that an entrepreneur can borrow is a function of his own wealth, which thus acts as collateral.
Consumption increases slightly at the moment of the shock because of the transfer of resources from investment, decreasing afterward because of the negative wealth effect.
Individuals may be different in their initial wealth, yet they are homogeneous in terms of all other aspects.
A key feature of these figures is that only employed agents within a narrow wealth range have interior portfolio decisions.
If each agent's endowment level increases, then the relative wealth differences between the lenders and the borrowers really decrease.
In such a model, a redistribution of wealth among the agents should have no effect on the bond price.
The wealth effect could also impact the allocation of labor at the farm level.
Recent research has seen a wealth of rehabilitation work directly addressing neuropsychological damage.
With such a wealth of material, it is no surprise that this programme was not initially examined especially closely.
Respect, if not great influence, was available without great wealth or high office.
Political favour did not establish so much as legitimate and reinforce strength of personality and wealth already perceived by the community and the elite.
In economic terms such institutions emphasize the connection between their sources of wealth and the ways they displayed their identity.
We added interaction terms between religiosity and our measures of wealth to the baseline specification.
Studies of communication, especially of language use, have provided a wealth of empirical material and conceptual tools.
Taking all these factors together, one can easily see that ducats were actually just about the only available store of wealth for many years.
The personal wealth of these leaders demonstrates the power of the state, not purchase power.
A sojourn in the colonies could, in fact, be a means of acquiring fame and wealth.
Over most of the last 4 decades, households' wealth-income ratio did not fluctuate widely from year to year.
Once target savers reach their wealth target, they may feel no need to save more.
Not only does saving affect the stock of wealth, but wealth in turn influences the choice to save.
The emphasis would be on increasing trade, increasing productivity, on a larger share for everyone rather than a struggle to redistribute existing wealth.
They would stop the use of tax policy for social purposes, for the redistribution of wealth.
As a centre of wealth, with resident elite groups, the town certainly provided a rich framework for sociability.
However, despite the difference in social status between the two families, there was probably little to choose between them in terms of wealth.
Even the moderately well-off were able to take some precautionary steps to avoid expropriation and the effects of the introduction of limits on wealth.
How do the various classes fare in terms of participation in national wealth?
Dedicated solely to the pursuit of wealth, it evolved no institutions beyond the ubiquitous parish guilds, of which there were at least four.
Whenever damages are paid for harm to property in breach of a duty of care, a transfer of wealth takes place.
In the absence of any serious challenge to the wealth and institutions that reproduce them, the upper class will survive, adapt and thrive.
We have seen that any such claim about the distribution of wealth could not have been and can not today be legitimately sustained.
As our national wealth increased, we have been able to devote much greater resources to these services than ever before.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.