"What do inherited financial assets signify to heirs and testators and how does this shape their conduct? Based on grounded theory methodology and twenty open, thematically structured interviews with US heirs, future heirs and testators, this article explicates a theoretical account that proposes a moral ambivalence as the core category to understand the social meaning of inherited financial assets. In particular, the analysis reveals that the social meaning of inherited assets is a contingent, individual compromise between seeing inherited assets as unachieved wealth and seeing them as family means of support. Being the lifetime achievement of another person, inheritances are, on the one hand, morally dubious and thus difficult to appropri...
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The study purpose was to contribute to a more complete understanding of the experience and meaning o...
This study examines the mechanisms by which intergenerationally gifted assets are transformed into i...
"What do inherited financial assets signify to heirs and testators and how does this shape their con...
What do inherited financial assets signify to heirs and testators and how does this shape their cond...
Abstract: What do inherited financial assets signify to heirs and testators and how does this shape ...
Als was verstehen Erben und Erblasser/innen finanzielle Erbschaften und wie bestimmt dies ihr Handel...
Inheritance and in particular inheritance taxes have emerged as topics of steadily increasing intere...
Becoming a successor or not is a fact of very much importance for quite many people. The estimation...
Inheritance fundamentally violates the meritocratic justice principle of society. Despite the high l...
How to regulate the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next has been hotly debated among ...
How to regulate the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next has been hotly debated among ...
To explore perceptions of inheritance events, people were asked to describe arrangements they regard...
Is the practice of inheritance legitimate? This was the question posed to philosophers, economists,...
The decline of probate has another dimension that has not been well understood. Fundamental changes ...
<p>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</p>This is an enhanced qu...
The study purpose was to contribute to a more complete understanding of the experience and meaning o...
This study examines the mechanisms by which intergenerationally gifted assets are transformed into i...
"What do inherited financial assets signify to heirs and testators and how does this shape their con...
What do inherited financial assets signify to heirs and testators and how does this shape their cond...
Abstract: What do inherited financial assets signify to heirs and testators and how does this shape ...
Als was verstehen Erben und Erblasser/innen finanzielle Erbschaften und wie bestimmt dies ihr Handel...
Inheritance and in particular inheritance taxes have emerged as topics of steadily increasing intere...
Becoming a successor or not is a fact of very much importance for quite many people. The estimation...
Inheritance fundamentally violates the meritocratic justice principle of society. Despite the high l...
How to regulate the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next has been hotly debated among ...
How to regulate the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next has been hotly debated among ...
To explore perceptions of inheritance events, people were asked to describe arrangements they regard...
Is the practice of inheritance legitimate? This was the question posed to philosophers, economists,...
The decline of probate has another dimension that has not been well understood. Fundamental changes ...
<p>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</p>This is an enhanced qu...
The study purpose was to contribute to a more complete understanding of the experience and meaning o...
This study examines the mechanisms by which intergenerationally gifted assets are transformed into i...