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Does Short-Time Work Save Jobs? A Business Cycle Analysis
Balleer, Almut - 2014
In the Great Recession most OECD countries used short-time work (publicly subsidized working time reductions) to counteract a steep increase in unemployment. We show that short-time work can actually save jobs. However, there is an important distinction to be made: While the rule-based component...
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Matching and Saving in Continuous Time : Theory
Bayer, Christian - 2010
generalized Keynes-Ramsey rule includes a precautionary savings term. A phase diagram analysis illustrates consumption and wealth …
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Will Women Save More than Men? A Theoretical Model of Savings and Marriage
Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2010
higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of … marriage and with lower savings rates in the presence of diseconomies of marriage. In the context of traditional gender roles … traditional gender roles and marital status to understanding cross-country variation in gender differentials in savings behavior …
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Re-Examining the Decline in the US Saving Rate : The Impact of Mortgage Equity Withdrawal
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013
In this paper we examine the role of mortgage equity withdrawal in explaining the decline of the US saving rate, since when house prices rise and mortgage rates are low, homeowners have an incentive to withdraw housing equity and this may affect the saving rate. We estimate a Vector Error...
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Do Mobile Pensioners Threaten the Deferred Taxation of Savings?
Meier, Volker - 2013
policy consists in full deferral of income taxes on savings and a full taxation of interest. Mobility of the old calls for … savings in combination with full tax exemption on capital income …
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Is Social Security Behind the Collapse of Personal Saving?
Caliendo, Frank - 2009
This paper considers the quantitative role of growth in the size of the social security program in contributing to the collapse of personal saving in the U.S. over the last few decades. Using a calibrated, general equilibrium life-cycle model this paper shows that social security may not be to...
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Annuity Market Imperfection, Retirement and Economic Growth
Heijdra, Ben J. - 2009
We study the effects of an annuity market imperfection on individual agents' labour supply and retirement decisions and on the macroeconomic growth rate in an overlapping generations model with endogenous growth. We model imperfect annuities by introducing a load factor on the interest rate...
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Tax Co-Ordination in Europe : Assessing the First Years of the EU-Savings Taxation Directive
Hemmelgarn, Thomas - 2009
This paper reviews the economic effects of the EU Savings Taxation Directive. The Directive aims at enabling taxation … savings. However, this result has to be interpreted with caution since the available data is scarce and not always conclusive …
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Human Capital and the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle
Katsimi, Margarita - 2007
In this paper we reexamine the Feldstein-Horioka finding of limited international capital mobility by using a broader view (i.e., including human capital) of investment and saving. We find that the Feldstein-Horioka result is impervious to this change
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Morbidity, Mortality, Health Expenditures and Annuitization
Tang, Kam Ki - 2010
In this paper we explore the implication of a morbidity risk for the relationship between longevity and annuitization. We divide old-age life into two periods with uncertain survival from the end of the first to the end of the second. We show that a rise in the survival rate causes different...
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