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(2005). We extend it by unemployment risk using Markov chains to model the transition between different employment states …, short-term as well as long-term unemployment. This allows us to examine the effects of persistence in the unemployment … process on portfolio choice. Our main findings are, first, that in case of short-term unemployment only, social security …
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How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking...
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The life-cycle hypothesis implies that consumption would not decline at retirement. However, several studies found relevant declines in food consumption after retirement for the United States. Others concluded that this contradiction of the life-cycle hypothesis is solved by allowing for broader...
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(2005). We extend it by unemployment risk using Markov chains to model the transition between different employment states …, short-term as well as long-term unemployment. This allows us to examine the effects of persistence in the unemployment … process on portfolio choice. Our main findings are, first, that in case of short-term unemployment only, social security …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661267
(2005). We extend it by unemployment risk using Markov chains to model the transition between different employment states …, short-term as well as long-term unemployment. This allows us to examine the effects of persistence in the unemployment … process on portfolio choice. Our main findings are, first, that in case of short-term unemployment only, social security …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818213
Abstract: We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment … compensation system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated … for the unemployed who are eligible to means-tested unemployment assistance after the exhaustion of unemployment benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068846
We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine … effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …
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future net-income risks. The uncertainty measure takes into account the interdependency of labour market status and health … specific effects. I find evidence for precautionary savings in response to the uncertainty measures. The results are robust and …
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This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …
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This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence and the reduced opportunity costs of parenthood, distinguishing … UK (1994-2001). The results highlight spurious negative effects of unemployment on family formation among men, which can …
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