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Der Artikel zeigt in den grundlegenden Zügen die Entwicklung in Ostdeutschland seit dem Beginn der Umstrukturierung auf und zieht eine Bilanz zum Stand des Anpassungsprozesses 20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall. Wie sich an der Entwicklung der Wirtschaftsleistung zeigen lässt, ist der wirtschaftliche...
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. Using SIPP panel data and an event-study regression framework, we examine the household income patterns of individuals whose … household income roughly by half on average, and for UI recipients benefits replace just under half of this loss. Accordingly …, when benefits end the household loses UI income equal to roughly one-quarter of total pre-separation household income (and …
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. Unhealthy eating intergenerational transmission appears to be more intense amongst lower household income individuals. …
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This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on … aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net … household income are derived. The BHPS net household income definition is modelled on that used in Britain’s official personal …
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combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …
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, savings, length of stay in the U.S., and citizenship status affect the probability of homeownership before the recession and …
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Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially …-Linked Savings (PLS) accounts, that combine principal-security with lottery-type jackpots, can increase savings among these at …-risk households. Results from an online experiment show that the introduction of PLS accounts increase total savings and reduce …
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In this paper we analyze a mechanism that is particularly relevant to the workings of the Great Recession: we explain how easier home financing and higher homeownership rates increase unemployment rates. To this purpose we build a model of job search with liquid wealth accumulation and...
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have larger incentives to save for old age than their husbands. This paper analyses the household members’ attitudes … towards saving for old age, and the relation with the household saving and portfolio choice behaviour. Based on a panel of two …-person households (e.g. with a husband and a wife) from the Dutch CentER Savings Survey, we find that wives find saving for old age more …
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The potentially adverse labor market effects of severance pay mandates are a continuing source of policy concern. In a seminal study, Lazear (1990) found that contract avoidance of severance pay firing costs was theoretically simple – a bonding scheme would do – but that empirically the...
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