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wealth. In addition, the savings rate strongly responds to demographic trends. Besides the direct impact of the age structure …, an indirect effect arises through the accumulation of wealth. The savings rate does not decrease with age in a monotonic …This paper investigates the relationship between wealth, ageing and saving behaviour of private households by using …
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This study estimates the size and value of unpaid family caretaking activities at a European level. While at a country level several studies are available, a comprehensive evaluation for Europe as a whole was missing so far, mainly due to data limitations. This paper fills this gap using a...
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Patterns of informal care are documented throughout the day with Dutch time use diary data. The diary data enable us to identify a, so far overlooked, source of opportunity costs of informal care, i.e. the necessity to perform particular tasks of informal care at specific moments of the day....
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There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on...
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(HILDA) Survey, this paper demonstrates that wealth, which can be viewed as providing a degree of economic security, is at …
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countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain …, results from panel regression fixed effects models indicate that changes in wealth, income and consumption all produce …
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and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial …-employed professionals. The high level of human wealth of contemporary American Jews is not at the expense of non-human wealth. Overall, and … even when other variables including schooling are held constant, Jews have higher levels of wealth and higher rates of …
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increase individuals' financial literacy and that the relationship between financial literacy and wealth is largely …
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for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket medical expenses, as well as financial wealth sufficient to buffer against …
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through 2001, we analyse the impact of wealth, savings, and debt position on job exit rates. We find evidence for a positive …In the literature theoretical models have appeared that predict a positive impact of the level of individual wealth on … to accumulate wealth throughout their working life and whose residual working life is relatively short. In the …
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