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Income Receipt and Mortality: Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees
Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public … holidays and other special days or events coinciding with paydays and for general within-month and within-week mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886134
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Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer … first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are very potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical … tool to encourage savings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646295
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The Racial Saving Gap Enigma: Unraveling the Role of Institutions
Belton, Willie; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
It has been well documented in the literature that ethnicity matters significantly in the determination of savings. In … particular, African-American savings lag far behind savings for other ethnic groups. Similarly, the literature also provides … explanation for the savings gap that still exists between African-Americans and White Americans even after accounting for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761799
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Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle
Low, Hamish; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We specify a structural life-cycle model of consumption, labour supply and job mobility in an economy with search frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects. The sources of risk are shocks to productivity, job destruction, the process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822852
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Capital Income Taxation and the Mirrlees Review
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The Mirrlees Review of the UK tax system, together with its companion volume of research papers, can be expected to influence future discussions of tax reform. Indeed, this can already be recognised in the Henry Review. As far as income taxation is concerned, the most substantive recommendation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552954
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Gender, Time Use and Public Policy over the Life Cycle
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and leisure over the life cycle. Time use profiles for these activity categories are constructed on survey data for three countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762224
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Household Saving and Full Consumption over the Life Cycle
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This paper extends the standard model of life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of directions. First, it argues that consumption should be defined as expenditure on household production as well as on market goods, that is, we are interested in life cycle profiles of full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762285
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Life Cycle Time Allocation and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper combines income and expenditure with time use data to provide a unique picture of the time paths of labour supplies, saving and full consumption for two-adult households over the life cycle. These data are used to test the life cycle model presented in the paper, at the core of which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763597
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Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216747
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Demography, Capital Flows and Unemployment
Marchiori, Luca; Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper contributes to the already vast literature on demography-induced international capital flows by examining the role of labor market imperfections and institutions. We setup a two-country overlapping generations model with search unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371176