This paper studies consumption and labor supply in a model where agents have partial insurance and face risk and … consumption are solved for analytically. We prove that all parameters of the structural model are identified given panel data on … wages and hours, and cross-sectional data on consumption. The model is estimated on US data. Second moments involving hours …

lower, when compared to Spain. This suggests that the hardship of being unemployed is higher in Portugal. Unemployment …, can explain this disparity. In this chapter we present some estimates of the loss of consumption suffered by unemployed …In Portugal real wage flexibility, at the macroeconomic level, is noticeably higher, while unemployment duration is …

the rest of the economy via high unemployment and reduced labor earnings, which reduced household contributions to Social … economic shocks, and it also explores how people may react by changing their consumption, saving and investment, work and … both short- and long-term consumption, boost work effort, and defer retirement. Younger cohorts will initially reduce their …

responsive to unemployment when using regional variation. Low percentiles of both income and consumption are sensitive to … from the Current Population Survey and consumption data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey. This new evidence on the … poverty, examining alternative income poverty and consumption poverty, which have conceptual and empirical advantages as …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between unemployment and consumption. We study this relationship with panel … indicate that in the South consumption should fall more than in the North when the male household head becomes unemployed. This … empirical results indicate that an increase in the duration of unemployment spells of male household heads is associated with …

extant research on consumption insurance find that people face substantial risks that they do not fairly pool. In theory, the … consumption and wealth accumulation of price-taking households in an economy with incomplete markets differs substantially from … this decomposition as an organizing framework to present four main findings: (a) the concavity of the consumption policy …

This paper provides instrumental variables estimates of the response of aggregate private consumption to transitory … transitory shocks to aggregate output on private consumption in poor countries. …

. We study private consumption choices focusing on former East Germany, where differential access to Western television was … significant impact of previous exposure to Western television on aggregate consumption levels. However, exposure to Western … broadcasts affects the composition of consumption, biasing choices in favor of categories of goods with high intensity of pre …