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This paper investigates the potentially non-linear relation between households' indebtedness and their consumption … previous studies, we find a negative effect of households' indebtedness on their consumption, even in the absence of negative …, rather than its overall sustainability, that leads households to reduce their consumption. We perform as well a threshold …
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We implement a survey of Dutch households in which random subsets of respondents receive information about inflation … evidence that this is likely driven by the fact that Dutch households seem to become more pessimistic about their real income …
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We explore the micro-foundations of fragility by discussing how to measure the exposure to fragility at the individual level. We focus on two notions that are not covered by existing aggregate, state-centric indicators of fragility. First, different individuals may experience fragility very...
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We survey samples of German firms and households to document novel stylized facts about the extent of information … dispersed than households', consistent with higher information frictions among households. Second, the degree of dispersion and … the distance from expert forecasts varies more across groups of households than across groups of firms. Third, firms …
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considers relative earnings disparities within households. We provide empirical evidence supporting our model's predictions …
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labour market features. Our results support the urbanisation hypothesis for ongoing couples over either the colocation or …
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restrictions. Exploting this exogenous variation, we study the effect of migration on urbanisation and the distribution of … migration shocks can foster urbanisation in the medium run. …
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African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a thorough reappraisal of the sector. What are less well understood, however, are the drivers that reallocate scarce human and physical resources across occupations and space, and...
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(urbanisation) is the outcome of the activities of entrepreneurs. Second, I provide a stylized overview of entrepreneurship and … "smart" cities, "circular" cities, and of sub-urbanisation and secondary city growth. Over time not all cities, and their …, serendipity and context-specificity of global urbanisation implies that there is much that is still unknown about the specifics of …
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As is the case in most developed countries, the population of New Zealand is ageing numerically and structurally. Population ageing can have important effects on the distribution of personal income within and between urban areas. The age structure of the population may affect the distribution of...
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