Bartzsch, Nikolaus - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 228 (2008) 1, pp. 5-24
Summary This paper uses microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) to analyse the importance of precautionary saving under income uncertainty. In a cross-section of households, wealth in 2002 is regressed on alternative measures of income uncertainty. In addition to the usual...