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Do Wealthier Households Save More? The Impact of the Demographic Factor

Belke, Ansgar; Dreger, Christian; Ochmann, Richard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

wealth. In addition, the savings rate strongly responds to demographic trends. Besides the direct impact of the age structure …, an indirect effect arises through the accumulation of wealth. The savings rate does not decrease with age in a monotonic …This paper investigates the relationship between wealth, ageing and saving behaviour of private households by using …

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Time to Vote?

Gibson, John; Kim, Bonggeun; Stillman, Steven; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Despite the centrality of voting costs to the paradox of voting, little effort has been made to accurately measure these costs outside of a few spatially limited case studies. In this paper, we apply Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools to validated national election survey data from New...

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It's the Opportunity Cost, Stupid! How Self-Employment Responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on...

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How Immigration May Affect U.S. Native Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results

Duleep, Harriet; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper describes the theoretical underpinnings and provides empirical evidence for a model that predicts a positive impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to invest in new skills. At...

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U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads

Duleep, Harriet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy and two, whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admissions system or move towards a...

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Time-Bound Opportunity Costs of Informal Care: Consequences for Access to Professional Care, Caregiver Support, and Labour Supply Estimates

Hassink, Wolter; van den Berg, Bernard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Patterns of informal care are documented throughout the day with Dutch time use diary data. The diary data enable us to identify a, so far overlooked, source of opportunity costs of informal care, i.e. the necessity to perform particular tasks of informal care at specific moments of the day....

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GDP and the Value of Family Caretaking: How Much Does Europe Care?

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This study estimates the size and value of unpaid family caretaking activities at a European level. While at a country level several studies are available, a comprehensive evaluation for Europe as a whole was missing so far, mainly due to data limitations. This paper fills this gap using a...

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The Wealth, Health and Wellbeing of Ireland's Older People Before and During the Economic Crisis

Barrett, Alan; O'Sullivan, Vincent - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about …

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Banks Information Policies, Financial Literacy and Household Wealth

Fort, Margherita; Manaresi, Francesco; Trucchi, Serena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

increase individuals' financial literacy and that the relationship between financial literacy and wealth is largely …

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Income and Wealth in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing

O'Sullivan, Vincent; Nolan, Brian; Barrett, Alan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

particular interest to economists, namely income and wealth and (b) to discuss issues in relation to their use, in particular … with respect to missing data. We describe how the income and wealth data were collected. We assess the quality of the … consider the relationship between income/wealth and life satisfaction, another variable captured in TILDA. We find that income …

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