Although the Scandinavian countries are often considered to epitomize social democratic governance, Scandinavia’s profound wealth inequalities, seen in relation more modest income differences, constitutes a fascinating paradox. Drawing on class theoretical concerns with strategies for reproduction and Bourdieusian emphasis fractions, we explore how class-origin gaps evolved over past 25 years N...

We estimate the effect of pension reforms on households' expectations of retirement outcomes and private wealth accumulation decisions exploiting a decade of intense Italian pension reforms as a source of exogenous variation in expected pension wealth. The Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a large random sample of the Italian population, elicits expectations of the age at which workers exp...

The higher-end tail of the wealth distribution in India is studied using recently published lists of the wealth of richest Indians between the years 2002-4. The resulting rank distribution seems to imply a power-law tail for the wealth distribution, with a Pareto exponent between 0.81 and 0.92 (depending on the year under analysis). This provides a comparison with previous studies of wealth dis...

A verse of the Qur’an commends covering aurat to maintain honor for women is stated in QS al-Nur [24]: 31. However, there a distortion main message which contradicts with emerging phenomena jilboobs among both teenagers and adults. The approach used this study was qualitative literature review method. hermeneutical ma'na cum maghza employed interpret revealed that historical significance ethics...