uncompensated interest rate elasticity for savings, in line with the literature, to around zero. Accordingly, any policy …. -- Consumption-savings decision ; interest rate elasticity of savings ; income uncertainty …

In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income … respondents to be controlled. The approach gives straightforward evidence: Obviously there is an optimal elasticity at which …

principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second … growth in the variance of residual wages over the first ten years of the worker's career are also the occupations with high …

-employee data. Estimation results reveal a sizable positive average impact on wages in East Germany and no effect in West Germany …-collar workers are used as control groups for differences-in-differences-in-differences estimation based on linked employer … the distribution suggesting spillover effects to wages where the minimum is not binding. -- Minimum wage ; construction …

as higher future wages and probabilities of promotion or job retention, which might help to explain why an increasing …

The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature …-specific drinking behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for … different types of drinkers. Mincerian estimates reveal significant and positive relationships between wine drinkers and wages …

conditions. The issue of wage arrears (unpaid wages or outstanding pay), which affects half of all employees, plays an important … role in the determination of wages. Studies, which do not account for wage arrears, overestimate the overall inter …