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Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared to revealed risk aversion primarily by means of experiments such as lottery choice tasks. In this paper, we investigate educational choice, which involves the comparison of risky...
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Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite …
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consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income should predict both stock returns and housing returns. We use quarterly data for … wealth held in the form of housing (i.e., when stock and housing assets are substitutes), then they will temporarily reduce …
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deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for …
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This paper investigates the relationship between wealth, ageing and saving behaviour of private households by using … pooled cross sections of German consumption survey data. Different components of wealth are distinguished, as their impact on … wealth. In addition, the savings rate strongly responds to demographic trends. Besides the direct impact of the age structure …
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The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata …-data-collection stage may interfere consid-erably with the substantive research question. Looking at wealth data from the German SOEP, this … analysis affects wealth distri-bution and inequality analysis. Obviously, when measured in "per capita household" terms, wealth …
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non-monetary aspects evolves over changing wealth levels. Wages do not perfectly compensate individuals for differential … utility of jobs in a labour market with informational frictions. Changes in wealth may then affect preferences for different … increase with wealth shocks. Duration models are estimated based on the reduced form of a search model. Wealth may play an …
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In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion can affect the decision to join a trade union. Furthermore, a shift in risk attitudes can alter collective bargaining outcomes. Using German panel data (GSOEP) and three novel...
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The empirical finding that entrepreneurs tend to invest a large share of their wealth in their own firms despite …
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This paper explores the relationship between self-declared risk aversion of private investors and their willingness to hold diversified portfolios of financial assets. The analysis is based on household survey data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) that provides a reliable measure of...
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