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more attractive for social insurance if a larger part of risk is realized in the first period of the life-cycle. Our …
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To analyze the optimal social insurance package, we set up a two-period life-cycle model with risky human capital investment in which the government has access to labor taxation, education subsidies and capital taxation. Social insurance is provided by redistributive labor taxation. Moreover,...
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of years spent in retirement” are characterized by constant or decreasing absolute risk aversion. A similar result …
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more attractive for social insurance if a larger part of risk is realized in the first period of the life-cycle. Our …
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In this paper, we consider how the hours of work and retirement age ought to respond to a change in the uncertainty of the length of life. In a first best framework, where a benevolent government exercises perfect control over the individuals' labor supply and retirement-decisions, the results...
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To analyze the optimal social insurance package, we set up a two-period life-cycle model with risky human capital investment in which the government has access to labor taxation, education subsidies and capital taxation. Social insurance is provided by redistributive labor taxation. Moreover,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316119
of years spent in retirement” are characterized by constant or decreasing absolute risk aversion. A similar result …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671698
with the Arrow/Romer approach to endogenous growth to analyze the interaction of risk, growth, and inequality, the latter …. Major results include that growth, inequality, and risk are positively related in our model, but we also identify a hump …–shaped relationship between welfare and risk, indicating a tradeoff relationship between risk–pooling and growth in the determination of …
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role of learning and risk aversion. It bridges two strands of literature: one focused on the role learning for the success … of IEA formation when countries are risk neutral and another that explores the implications of uncertainty and risk … aversion on IEA formation under no learning. Combining learning and risk aversion seems appropriate as the uncertainties …
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We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based on the survey of professional forecasters, and regression-based forecasting models for GDP growth, inflation, S&P500 stock price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate...
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