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Social Security in Belgium : Distributive Outcomes

Jousten, Alain; Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio; … - 2005

The paper analyzes the link between old-age income programs and economic outcomes in Belgium. We use a simulation methodology to construct an average pension generosity variable. Our regression analysis explores the link with distributional outcomes in income, consumption and more subjective...

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Income inequality and saving

Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; el Attar, Mayssun - 2012

Over the last three decades, average income for the bottom half of the US distribution increased by 8% while their average saving rate decreased by eight percentage points. Over the same period the US experienced a substantial increase in inequality and a continuous decrease in the aggregate...

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Pensions, household saving, and welfare: A dynamic analysis

Blau, David M. - 2011

Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order … household wealth is crowded out by pensions? (2) Can linear regression analysis accurately estimate the magnitude of crowdout … when the assumptions used in the empirical analysis are invalid? (3) How valuable are pensions to households? Simulation …

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The Response of Consumption in Russian Households to Economic Shocks

Stillman, Steven - 2001

changes in household savings are negatively related to exogenous income shocks, with this relationship strongest for low … wealth households. Only models of consumption which include precautionary savings motives can explain why poorer households … both reduce their consumption and increase their savings in response to an exogenous decline in income. …

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Life Cycle Time Allocation and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 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...

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A New Approach to Estimate the Wage Returns to Work-Related Training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2002

This paper proposes a new approach to identify the wage effects of training. The idea is to narrow down the comparison group by only taking into consideration the workers who wanted to participate in training but did not do so because of some random event. The point estimate of the return to...

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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2011

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...

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Gielen, Anne C.; Kerkhofs, Marcel J. M.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2006

This paper uses information from a panel of Dutch firms to investigate the labor productivity effects of performance related pay (PRP). We find that PRP increases labor productivity at the firm level with about 9% and employment with about 5%.

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The impact of Colombia's pension and health insurance systems on informality

Calderón-Mejía, Valentina; Marinescu, Ioana E. - 2012

health insurance and pensions. Benefit bundling may increase informality and decrease welfare. Indeed, if some of the …

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The Enrollment Effect of Secondary School Fees in Post-War Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2004

This study utilizes the heterogeneity of the fee abolition for West German secondary schools to identify its effect on enrollment and to obtain an estimate of the price elasticity of demand for education. The analysis is based on administrative school enrollment statistics as well as on...

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