adjustment to savings and labor supply have significant macroeconomic implications. Applying the model to China, we find that the …We study, both empirically and quantitatively, the role of savings and the labor supply in self-insurance channels over …. We pick China as a case study since China has undergone a dramatic process of rapid aging and a tremendous reduction in …

From 1995 to 2005, the average urban household saving rate in China rose by 7 percentage points, to 1⁄4 of disposable … income. We use household-level data to explain the postponing of consumption despite rapid income growth. Tracing cohorts … demographic groups, although the age-profile of savings has an unusual U-shaped pattern, with saving rates being the highest among …

China’s household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-savings profile has become U … and pension reforms can account for over half of the increase in the urban household savings rate in China since the mid … increase in income uncertainty. Interestingly, the permanent variance of household income remains stable while it is the …

Household savings behavior in China during the past 30 years has been studied by using econometric models with the time …

This paper studies a panel of China''s provinces over the period 1996-2009 during which urban household saving rates … increase in real deposit rates may help lower household saving and boost domestic consumption …