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Do mandatory pensions decrease household savings? : evidence for the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob - 2000
income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … pensions have a significant negative impact on savings motives with respect to old age. Concerning the effect on household … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318591
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A constitutional theory of the family
Cigno, Alessandro (contributor) - 2005
effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or … ; renegotiation-proofness ; altruism ; fertility ; saving ; transfers ; attention ; pensions ; credit rationing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003260821
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Sexual orientation and household savings : do homosexual couples save more?
Negrusa, Brighita; Oreffice, Sonia - 2010
We analyze how sexual orientation is related to household savings using 2000 US Census data, and find that gay and … their married counterparts. In a household savings model, we interpret this homosexual-specific differential as due to the … than married ones. Evidence from homeowners' ratio of mortgage payments to house value exhibits the same pattern of savings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003968422
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Labor market transitions of members of opposite-sex couples: nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment
Bloemen, Hans G. - 2021
An empirical analysis of labor market transitions for spouses in couples is implemented. Object of study are transitions between the states of nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment. Motivated by a model of household search, the emphasis is on spousal variables and interactions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607755
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The impact of wealth on job exit rates of elderly workers
Bloemen, Hans G. (contributor) - 2006
through 2001, we analyse the impact of wealth, savings, and debt position on job exit rates. We find evidence for a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355646
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Income inequality and saving
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Attar, Mayssun el - 2012
Over the last three decades, average income for the bottom half of the US distribution increased by 8% while their average saving rate decreased by eight percentage points. Over the same period the US experienced a substantial increase in inequality and a continuous decrease in the aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681548
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Household saving and full consumption over the life cycle
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2001
This paper extends the standard model of life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of directions. First, it argues that consumption should be defined as expenditure on household production as well as on market goods, that is, we are interested in life cycle profiles of full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401086
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Stepping stones versus dead end jobs : exits from temporary contracts in Italy after the 2003 reform
Bruno, Giovanni; Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Dessy, Orietta - 2012
In this paper we study labor market transitions out of temporary jobs in Italy focussing on an interesting period of the Italian recent history: the one immediately following the last labor market reform aimed at flexibilizing and liberalizing the Italian labor market by a widespread use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570171
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The effect of product market competition on job instability
Fenoll, Ainhoa Aparicio - 2011
This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey and firm data from the Spanish Business Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009259523
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The impact of education and occupation on temporary and permanent work incapacity
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Lau, Daniel; Pozzoli, Dario - 2012
This paper investigates whether education and working in a physically demanding job causally impact temporary work incapacity, i.e. sickness absence, and permanent work incapacity, i.e. the inflow to disability via sickness absence. Our contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656610