persistence. -- Precautionary savings ; unemployment insurance ; long-term unemployment ; income uncertainty …

This paper empirically investigates the effects of changes in the interest rate as well as transitory income … significant effects of precautionary savings on the consumption-savings decision. As a result of a doubling of transitory income …. -- Consumption-savings decision ; interest rate elasticity of savings ; income uncertainty …

the poor: once expenditures for subsistence needs are subtracted from disposable household income, household …

We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the … importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution to total income …

population six times between April and June 2020. Given the size of the Covid-19 shock, we find little evidence of portfolio …-section shows large differences as young, educated, high income, and risk tolerant investors are net buyers throughout and, thus …

promote income. Using endogenous switching regression models, we show that local familial networks increase the income of …

The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of … private wealth balance sheets. Entrepreneurs, who face high income risk, hold more wealth than employees, but it is shown that … statutory pension insurance. The analysis accounts for endogeneity of entrepreneurial choice. -- Precautionary saving …

analyze the determinants of private saving in both country groups. Main results are: saving rates are persistent; income … substitutes. Long-run effects of income growth and public saving are larger in the EU than in the candidate countries, indicating …