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The theory of full consumption insurance posits that households are insulated from all idiosyncratic shocks so that the ratio of the marginal utilities of consumption of any two households is constant over time. Consumption insurance therefore implies absence of consumption mobility between any...
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This Paper uses panel data on household consumption and income to evaluate the degree of insurance to income shocks. Our aim is to describe the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality. Our framework nests the special cases of self-insurance and the complete markets...
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information on the evolution and riskiness of future wages that the econometrician may never hope to observe. Second, they allow … anticipated and unanticipated wage changes avoids the need of specifying instruments for the growth rate of wages, which is … than previous micro estimates. A parametric permanent innovation in wages impacts positively the rate of growth of labour …
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and fi…nd strong evidence of smoothing of male’s and female’s permanent shocks to wages. Once family labor supply, assets …
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cycle, of several dimensions of economic inequality, including wages, labor earnings, income, consumption, and wealth. After … emphasis on cross-country comparisons. Most, but not all, countries experienced substantial increases in wages and earnings …
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