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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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across states shows that the rise in top income shares can explain almost all of the accumulation of household debt held as a … financial asset by the household sector. Since the Great Recession, the saving glut of the rich has been financing government …
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with children allocate more of their time savings to caregiving. …We quantify the commute time savings associated with work from home, drawing on data for 27 countries. The average … daily time savings when working from home is 72 minutes in our sample. We estimate that work from home saved about two hours …
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empirical results indicate that an increase in the duration of unemployment spells of male household heads is associated with … indicate that in the South consumption should fall more than in the North when the male household head becomes unemployed. This …
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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 asset-tested unemployment insurance in an incomplete markets model with moral hazard during job search. Asset testing has two counteracting effects on welfare. On the one hand, it improves consumption insurance by introducing state contingent transfers to agents most in need. On the...
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We study the impact of a government spending shock on the distribution of income and wealth between cohorts in a dynamic stochastic Overlapping Generations model with two types of households, Ricardian households and rule-of-thumb consumers. We demonstrate that an unexpected increase in...
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Empirically analyzing household behavior usually relies on informal data preprocessing. That is, before an econometric … German micro-data on household expenditure to estimate equivalence scales as a specific example. Our results show that …
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effectiveness of demand-based policies, and their impact across household groups, in a more electrified future. …
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Idiosyncratic labor risk is a prevalent phenomenon with important implications for individual choices. In labor market research it is commonly assumed that agents have rational expectations and therefore correctly assess the risk they face in the labor market. We analyse survey data for the U.S....
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