Showing 1 - 9 of 9
, spouses' wages, hours of work, and time spent with children to estimate the sensitivity of consumption and time allocation to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776047
We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change along with the increase in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925549
We estimate a stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and longevity in the U.S. over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change and the increase in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191296
and find strong evidence of smoothing of male's and female's permanent shocks to wages. Once family labor supply, assets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629674
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895090
This paper examines two behavioral factors that diminish people's ability to value a life-time income stream or annuity, drawing on a survey of about 4,000 adults in a U.S. nationally representative sample. By experimentally varying the degree of complexity, we provide the first causal evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997340
Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a …. Co-op wages are about 14 percent lower on average and they are more volatile (and employment less volatile) than those in … capitalist and co-op enterprises. -- worker-owned firms ; capitalist firms ; wages ; employment ; capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003339781
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001805138
of wages. Our model accounts for endogenous participation and mobility decisions. We find that firm-specific permanent … productivity shocks transmit to individual wages, but the effect is mostly concentrated among the high-skilled workers. For low … one-third higher relative to a scenario with no pass-through of firm shocks onto wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012631559