From 1995 to 2005, the average urban household saving rate in China rose by 8 percentage points, to about one quarter … of disposable income. We use household-level data to explain why households are postponing consumption despite rapid …

household sectors. Although the causes of China's high saving are complex, we suggest that the evolving economic, demographic …-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA) and Urban Household Surveys (UHS) supplemented by the findings from … existing studies, we analyze the sources and causes of China's high and rising saving rates in the government, corporate, and …

structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under … investigated in the context of household saving decisions in China. …Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic …

poverty experience on future poverty status, future employment status and household composition. The empirical results suggest … behaviour and on household cohesion. Apart from its economic significance, the existence of such feedback effects is interesting …

human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and … interviewing the sending and receiving household participating in each fostering exchange, allowing a comparison of foster children …

This research evaluates the impact on German household labor supply of various subsidy schemes proposed to foster low …-wage employment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate a discrete choice model of household labor supply. On … different policies raising low labor earnings at the individual and household levels. In all cases, the labor supply effect is …

to get access to resources without support from unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we … find that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to resources …. In particular, unemployment delays the setting up of an individual household of young people, in some cases by decades …

In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to ?household impoverishment?. Subjective …, estimates based on the Bank of Italy?s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …