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cycle, of several dimensions of economic inequality, including wages, labor earnings, income, consumption, and wealth. After …
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How does the persistence of earnings change over the life cycle? Do workers at different ages face the same variance of idiosyncratic earnings shocks? This paper proposes a novel specification for residual earnings that allows for an age profile in the persistence and variance of labor income...
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This paper highlights the identification problem of the reduced-form approach in quantifying the degree of consumption insurance as in Blundell et al. (2008, BPP thereafter). I argue that the reduced-form estimates are difficult to interpret in terms of the degree of consumption insurance. I...
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This paper examines the importance of ex-ante heterogeneity for understanding the relationship between wealth and labor … distribution of employment, wages, and wealth observed in the data. Importantly, it reverses the prediction that employment falls … with wealth, a pervasive feature of models without ex-ante heterogeneity. A byproduct of the model's empirical performance …
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This paper quantifies the macroeconomic implications of the lack of insurance against idiosyncratic labor market risk. I show that in a model economy calibrated to observed individual level data, households make ample use of work effort as a consumption smoothing mechanism. As a consequence,...
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In this paper I present an explanation to the fact that in the data wealth is substantially more concentrated than …-yield assets as the level of net worth increases, I first use data on historical asset returns and portfolio composition by wealth … plausible difference between the return faced by poor and wealthy agents is able to generate a substantial increase in wealth …
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business affects the household's saving behavior and the implication of this behavior for the distribution of wealth and … movement of families across wealth classes over time. First, a number of stylized facts based on data from the Panel Study of … Income Dynamics and the Survey of Consumer Finances are outlined. They show relevant differences in asset holdings and wealth …
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Using new household-level data, we study the secular increase in U.S. household debt and its distribution since 1950. Most of the debt were mortgages, which initially grew because more households borrowed. Yet after 1980, debt mostly grew because households borrowed more. We uncover home equity...
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The life-cycle patterns of consumption, wage and hours inequality observed in U.S. cross-section data are commonly viewed as incompatible with a Pareto efficient allocation. We determine the extent to which these qualitative and quantitative patterns can or cannot be produced by Pareto efficient...
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Micro data over the life cycle show different patterns for consumption for housing and non-housing goods: The consumption profile of non-housing goods is hump-shaped, while the consumption profile for housing first increases monotonically and then flattens out. These patterns hold true at each...
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