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Social Security and Household Portfolio Allocation
Hubbard, R. Glenn - 1984
The entitlement to social security retirement benefits is a major component of aggregate household wealth. This paper … focuses on the impact of social security annuities on household portfolio allocation, extending existing optimizing models of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477729
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The Effect of Uncertain Labor Income and Social Security on Life-cycle Portfolios
Maurer, Raimond - 2010
This paper examines how labor income volatility and social security benefits can influence lifecycle household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462970
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Paternalism and Pseudo-Rationality
Fadlon, Itzik - 2017
highlight the distinction between planner optimization and household optimization. We show that planner optimization is a … substitute for household optimization and that this is true even when there are information asymmetries, so that households know … by household optimization also arise in an economy with a rational planner who uses tools such as default savings and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455062
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Why Do Europeans Save? Micro-Evidence from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey
Horioka, Charles; Ventura, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We analyze the saving motives of European households using micro-data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056164
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Labor Regulations, Unions, and Social Protection in Developing Countries : Market distortions or Efficient Institutions?
Freeman, Richard B. - 2009
This essay reviews what economists have learned about the impact of labor market institutions, defined broadly as government regulations and union activity on labor outcomes in developing countries. It finds that: 1) Labor institutions vary greatly among developing countries but less than they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463858
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Social Protection and Economic Development : Are the Poorest Being Lifted-Up or Left-Behind?
Ravallion, Martin - 2018
Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left-behind, yet this is a widespread concern among policy makers and citizens. The paper assesses whether public spending on social protection benefits the poorest and hence lifts the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453055
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Poverty Traps and the Social Protection Paradox
Ikegami, Munenobu - 2016
Progressively targeted cash transfers remain the dominant policy response to chronic poverty in developing countries. But are there alternative social protection policies that might have larger poverty impacts over time for the same public expenditure? To explore this question, this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455966
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Social Protection in the Developing World
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Social protection programs have become increasingly widespread in low- and middle-income countries, with their own distinct characteristics to match the environments in which they are operating. This paper reviews the growing literature on the design and impact of these programs. We review how...
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Does Household Electrification Supercharge Economic Development?
Lee, Kenneth - 2019
has produced a set of conflicting results. Does household electrification lead to measurable gains in living standards or … connect for free. We conclude that access to household electrification alone is not enough to drive meaningful gains in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480472
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Precautionary Strategies and Household Saving
Aizenman, Joshua - 2015
weaker and labor informality is prevalent. In such environments, household saving decisions are intertwined with firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457649