households with children are under-insured against the risk that an adult member of the household dies. We develop a tractable … macroeconomic model with human capital risk, age-dependent returns to human capital investment, and endogenous borrowing constraints …

This paper uses annual data drawn from the GSOEP to estimate individual earnings risk (labor market risk) in Germany … shocks to individual earnings. We find that both the transitory component and the permanent component of earnings risk have … been rising in West Germany in the 1990s and have remained at elevated levels in the 2000s. In contrast, labor market risk …

consumption-saving model with labor income risk and incomplete markets to relate income dynamics to consumption and welfare, and …) welfare-neutral. A smaller part of measured income mobility is due to either welfare-reducing income risk or welfare … welfare evaluation. -- income mobility ; labor market risk ; social welfare …

populated by a large number of long-lived, risk-averse households with homothetic preferences who can invest in risk … households less than half of human capital risk is insured and the welfare losses due to the lack of insurance range from 3 …

This paper analyzes the optimal response of the social insurance system to a rise in labor market risk. To this end, we … develop a tractable macroeconomic model with risk-free physical capital, risky human capital (labor market risk) and … (human capital) risk increases social welfare if the government adjusts the tax-and-transfer system optimally. Finally, we …