We study workers' idiosyncratic earnings risk over the life-cycle using a German administrative data set. Positive and … incomplete markets model. Moreover, age-varying risk implies a linear increase in consumption inequality late in working life. …

loss due to increased earnings risk. However, German registry data for the years 2001-2016 reveal a moderation in higher …-order earnings risk: Men and women born later face higher skewness in earnings changes, indicating fewer large decreases than …

uncertainty of remittance income inflows affects the accumulation of human, physical and financial assets of Mexican households … income hypothesis and theories of precautionary saving, a one standard deviation increase in the uncertainty of remittance … income raises the likelihood of household spending on asset accumulation by about 2 percentage points while raising the share …

contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk. The …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 …

The intergenerational elasticity of income is considered one of the best measures of the degree to which a society … the intergenerational elasticity of income. The model clarifies how the interaction between private and collective … elasticity of income are not particularly informative about fairness without taking into account differences in politico …

endogenous firing as well as a short-time work decision. In recessions, short-time work reduces the unemployment risk of workers …, which mitigates their precautionary savings motive and aggregate demand falls by less. Using a quantitative model analysis …

although risk can be measured, uncertainty cannot be measured. Even though risk can be measured, a simple symmetric measure … attempt at "measuring" risk or (fundamental) uncertainty is flawed. …