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 …

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. …

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 …

consumption-saving model with labor income risk and incomplete markets to relate income dynamics to consumption and welfare, and …) welfare-neutral. A smaller part of measured income mobility is due to either welfare-reducing income risk or welfare … welfare evaluation. -- income mobility ; labor market risk ; social welfare …

; income risk ; limited information variances …In the context of income dynamics, we investigate whether aspects of agents' superior information relative to the … econometrician cannot observe idiosyncratic shocks to both permanent and transitory components of income. In this case perceptions of …

This paper investigates whether risk preferences explain how individuals are sorted into occupations with different … willingness to take risks whose behavioral relevance has been validated in previous work. As a measure of earnings risk, we use … relating earnings risk to the measure of individual risk preference, our evidence shows that individuals with low willingness …

percent of mean income. In this paper we use economic theory to determine the relation between the appropriate make …Courts typically base compensation for loss of income in personal injury cases on either mean or median work income …. Yet, quantatively, mean and median incomes are typically very different. For example, in the US median income is 65 …

In this paper, we develop and numerically solve a model of idiosyncratic labour income and idiosyncratic interest rates … to predict the evolution of a wealth distribution over time. Stochastic labour income follows a deterministic growth …

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. …