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The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of … precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs … private wealth balance sheets. Entrepreneurs, who face high income risk, hold more wealth than employees, but it is shown that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600883
The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of … precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs … private wealth balance sheets. Entrepreneurs, who face high income risk, hold more wealth than employees, but it is shown that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008623436
affect poverty assessments and poverty lines. We address the disadvantage that poor households may suffer due to their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164137
This paper considers the impact of adverse health shocks that hit an individual's partner on subjective well-being. Using data on couples from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2006, I compare the losses in well-being caused by own and spousal disability using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600838
This paper considers the impact of adverse health shocks that hit an individual's partner on subjective well-being. Using data on couples from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2006, I compare the losses in well-being caused by own and spousal disability using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017437
Based on the Italian Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) and the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP), we show … they were young, retirement preparedness among them is a more serious concern than among childless individuals. …
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Overindebted private households have created economic and political concern. Using measures of relative (over …
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We analyze the effect of household indebtedness on different health outcomes using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1999-2009. To establish a causal effect, we rely on (a) fixed-effects methods, (b) a subsample of constantly employed individuals, and (c) lagged debt variables to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600992
Overindebted private households have created economic and political concern. Using measures of relative (over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469700
We analyze the effect of household indebtedness on different health outcomes using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1999-2009. To establish a causal effect, we rely on (a) fixed-effects methods, (b) a subsample of constantly employed individuals, and (c) lagged debt variables to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788719