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Buffer-stock saving and households' response to income shocks

Fella, Giulio; Frache, Serafin; Koeniger, Winfried - 2016

We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information contained in the joint dynamics of income,...

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Life cycle time allocation and saving in an imperfect capital market

Apps, Patricia (contributor); Rees, Ray (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Estimating labor-supply elasticities with joint borrowing constraints of couples

Bredemeier, Christian; Gravert, Jan; Jüßen, Falko - 2016

Estimates of Frisch labor-supply elasticities are biased in the presence of borrowing constraints. We show that this estimation bias is less pronounced for secondary than for primary earners. The reason is that, in households with two earners and joint borrowing constraints, wage-rate...

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Should unemployment insurance be asset-tested?

Köhne, Sebastian; Kuhn, Moritz - 2013

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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Short-time work and precautionary savings

Dengler, Thomas; Gehrke, Britta - 2021

, which mitigates their precautionary savings motive and aggregate demand falls by less. Using a quantitative model analysis …

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Optimal social assistance and unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2015

and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is provided by … social programs, savings and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on …

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The social tax : redistributive pressure and labor supply

Carranza, Eliana; Donald, Aletheia; Grosset, Florian; … - 2022

blocked savings accounts over 3-9 months. Workers may only deposit earnings increases, relative to baseline, mitigating income …

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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...

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Do wealthier households save more? : the impact of the demographic factor

Belke, Ansgar; Dreger, Christian; Ochmann, Richard R. - 2012

the savings rate is not homogeneous. On average, the effect attributed to real estate dominates the other components of … wealth. In addition, the savings rate strongly responds to demographic trends. Besides the direct impact of the age structure …, an indirect effect arises through the accumulation of wealth. The savings rate does not decrease with age in a monotonic …

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Why are saving rates of urban households in China rising?

Chamon, Marcos (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2007

profile of savings has an unusual U-shaped pattern, with saving rates being the highest among the youngest and oldest … savings ; age and cohort profiles of savings ; borrowing constraints ; precautionary savings ; financial development …

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