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Pensions, Household Saving, and Welfare : A Dynamic Analysis
Blau, David M. - 2011
Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order to obtain a tractable empirical model: fixed retirement and pension claiming ages, no borrowing constraint, little or no uncertainty, and no institutional restrictions on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128568
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Savings, Asset Holdings, and Temporary Migration
Dustmann, Christian - 2011
This paper analyzes savings and asset holdings of immigrants in relation to their return plans. We argue that savings … and asset accumulation may be affected by return plans of immigrants. Further, the way savings and assets are held in the … home- and host country may also be related to future return plans. Thus, comparing savings and assets between immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129924
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Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings
Haan, Peter - 2015
and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is provided by … social programs, savings and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023767
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Job Stability, Earnings Dynamics, and Life-Cycle Savings
Kuhn, Moritz; Ploj, Gasper - 2021
Labor markets are characterized by large heterogeneity in job stability. Some workers hold lifetime jobs, whereas others cycle repeatedly in and out of employment. This paper explores the economic consequences of such heterogeneity. Using Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) data, we document a...
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Voluntary Job Separations and Traditional Versus Flexible Workplace Saving Plans : Evidence from Canada
Fang, Tony - 2019
"traditional" registered pension plan or RPP, a "flexible" group registered retirement savings plan or group RRSP, and a "hybrid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870227
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Socioeconomic Assimilation and Wealth Accumulation of Migrants in Australia
Vaira-Lucero, Matias - 2012
' savings and assimilation estimating several models, from a pooled OLS to panel data models such as random effect and … is relevant to understand the supply of domestic savings and their variability. It also carries policy implications on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098452
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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
Brown, Alessio J.G; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...
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Personality Psychology and Economics
Almlund, Mathilde - 2011
This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129922
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A Continuous Labour Supply Model in Microsimulation : A Life-Cycle Modelling Approach with Heterogeneity and Uncertainty Extension
Li, Jinjing - 2011
This paper advances a structural inter-temporal model of labour supply that is able to simulate the dynamics of labour supply in a continuous setting and to circumvent two main drawbacks of most of the existing models. The first limitation is the inability to incorporate individual heterogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118517
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The Frisch Elasticity in the Mercosur Countries : A Pseudo-Panel Approach
González, Roberto - 2011
This paper provides estimates for the Mercosur countries of the Frisch elasticity – i.e., the elasticity of substitution between worked hours and real wages holding constant the marginal utility of wealth. We find a strong heterogeneity, with estimated elasticities ranging from 12.8 in...
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