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HIV/AIDS, Risk Aversion and Intertemporal Choice
Lammers, Judith; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - 2010
with real monetary rewards conducted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220473
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Voluntary Participation and Intergenerational Risk Sharing in a Funded Pension System
Beetsma, Roel; Romp, Ward; Vos, Siert J. - 2011
We explore the feasibility of a funded pension system with intergenerational risk sharing when participation in the system is voluntary. Typically, the willingness of the young to participate depends on their belief about the future young's willingness to do so. We characterise equilibria with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325858
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Participation Constraints in Pension Systems
Beetsma, Roel; Romp, Ward - 2013
We explore voluntary participation in pension arrangements. Individuals only participate when participation is more attractive than autarky. The bene??it of participation is that risks can be shared with future generations. We apply our analysis to a pay-as-you-go system, a funded system without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326545
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Effects of Health on Own and Spousal Employment and Income using Acute Hospital Admissions
Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; van Kippersluis, Hans; O'Donnell, Owen - 2011
Ill-health can be expected to reduce employment and income. But are the effects sustained over time? Do they differ … across the income distribution? And are there spillover effects on the employment and income of the spouse? We use matching …, on employment and income up to six years after the health shock using linked Dutch hospital and tax register data. On …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326384
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Every crisis has a silver lining? Unravelling the pro-cyclical pattern of health inequalities by income
Coveney, Max; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; van Doorslaer, Eddy; … - 2018
It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using … European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) panel data for 7 EU countries from 2004 to 2013, we decompose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932337
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HIV/AIDS, Risk Aversion and Intertemporal Choice
Lammers, Judith; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - 2007
with real monetary rewards conduEted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325511
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Education and Labor Market Activity of Women: An Age-Group Specific Empirical Analysis
Münch, Claudia; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - 2009
We analyze the determinants of female labor market participation for different age-groups in the European Union. We show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education increases participation only up to an age of 40 while after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326035