Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 272
Cover Image
Do Mandatory Pensions Decrease Household Savings? Evidence for the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob - 2004
income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … pensions have a significant negative impact on savings motives with respect to old age. Concerning the effect on household … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012786283
Cover Image
Risk and Saving in Two-Person Households : More Scope for Precautionary Saving
Apps, Patricia F. - 2012
The existing literature suggests that when the saving decision of two-earner households under risk is analysed, standard results on the existence of precautionary saving no longer apply: precautionary saving is obtained if and only if very stringent conditions hold. This paper shows that when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099761
Cover Image
Stigma in Welfare Programs
Celhay, Pablo; Meyer, Bruce; Mittag, Nikolas - 2022
Stigma of welfare participation is important for policy and survey design, because it deters program take-up and increases misreporting. Stigma is also relevant to the literature on social image concerns, yet empirical evidence is scant because stigma is difficult to empirically identify. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030404
Cover Image
Income Inequality and Saving
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco - 2013
Over the last three decades, average income for the bottom half of the US distribution increased by 8% while their average saving rate decreased by eight percentage points. Over the same period the US experienced a substantial increase in inequality and a continuous decrease in the aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088975
Cover Image
Determinants of Savings and Remittances : Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to Germany
Sinning, Mathias - 2021
is the correct specification for the analysis of migrants' savings and remittances rather than the conventional Tobit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316868
Cover Image
The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2011
This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey and firm data from the Spanish Business Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125476
Cover Image
The Impact of Education and Occupation on Temporary and Permanent Work Incapacity
Datta Gupta, Nabanita - 2012
This paper investigates whether education and working in a physically demanding job causally impact temporary work incapacity, i.e. sickness absence, and permanent work incapacity, i.e. the inflow to disability via sickness absence. Our contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098461
Cover Image
Individual Poverty Paths and the Stability of Control-Perception
Thiel, Hendrik - 2015
This paper investigates whether individual control-perception affects the probability of becoming poor, and vice versa, whether poverty experiences can be detrimental to these traits later on. The former relation is intuitive as control related traits underlay many idiosyncratic determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015021
Cover Image
Bayesian Panel Quantile Regression for Binary Outcomes with Correlated Random Effects : An Application on Crime Recidivism in Canada
Bresson, Georges - 2020
This article develops a Bayesian approach for estimating panel quantile regression with binary outcomes in the presence of correlated random effects. We construct a working likelihood using an asymmetric Laplace (AL) error distribution and combine it with suitable prior distributions to obtain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842061
Cover Image
If Not Now, When? The Timing of Childbirth and Labour Market Outcomes
Picchio, Matteo - 2018
We study the effect of childbirth and its timing on female labour market outcomes in Italy. The impact on yearly labour earnings and fraction of time at work is traced up to 21 years since school completion by estimating a factor analytic model with dynamic selection into treatments. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929093