This paper investigates the impact of public employment on household saving rates in China using representative … demographic factors, we show that households headed by public employees have higher saving rates than other households. This … children and they have a higher saving capacity than non-public employees due to better social security. Our results contribute …

households’ voluntary saving using administrative micro data with comprehensive third-party reported information on taxpayers … reduce voluntary saving when faced with a rise in mandatory saving. Our results are confirmed by the finding that workers who … move between the public and the private sector, which have different mandatory saving rates, do not change their voluntary …

We show how optimal saving in a two-period model is affected when prudence and risk aversion of the underlying utility … aversion that affect the distribution between the periods must also be taken into account. -- Prudence ; risk aversion ; saving …

Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second … arbitrary utility and learning functions. Efficient incentives for education and saving are analysed under conditions of second … and third best. It is argued that efficient tax policy should care more about incentives for education than for saving …

taxes reduce labor supply distortions on second-period labor supply, since second-period labor supply and saving are …, although this effect is partially off-set because first-period labor supply and saving are complements. Capital taxes will be … results suggest that taxing (retirement) saving is optimal to boost the retirement age and to reduce the tax-burden on working …