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Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by a mix of several methods, namely by voluntary individual savings … workers decide on their own individual savings, that the fully-funded occupational system is decided upon by the age cohort of … pension savings are the only sources of capital supply. When capital supply equals demand from industry there is equilibrium …
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reason is that prices for the two most important long-term savings objectives - housing and healthcare - are rising …-term savings objectives and see purchasing power decline, or they compromise financial security and invest in highly volatile …
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We study the impact of heterogeneous saving behavior on the distributional effects of public investment. A capital tax is levied to finance productive public capital in an economy with two types of households: high income households who save dynastically and middle income households who save for...
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We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel …
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This paper provides a household-level perspective on the rise of global saving and wealth since the 1980s. We calculate … China. In the past four decades, global saving inequality has risen sharply. The share of household saving flows coming from … the richest 10% of household increased by 60% while saving of middle-class households has fallen sharply. The most …
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comprehensive study of wealth and its distribution in Germany since the 19th century. We combine tax and archival data, household …
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This paper investigates the impact of public employment on household saving rates in China using representative … household-level data. After controlling for a series of variables such as income, risk attitude, financial literacy, and … to a better understanding of Chinese household saving rates, which is of great importance given their extremely high …
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effect on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was …
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households, focusing on the dramatic change of the household savings rate since 1998, from high to low savings. The literature …This paper scrutinizes the role of prolonged, expansionary monetary policy on the savings behavior of Japanese … monetary policy had a significant impact on Japan's household behavior via the interest rate channel and the redistribution …
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cycle. Decreasing discounting helps a canonical life-cycle model to explain the household saving puzzles of undersaving when …
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