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(Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the household's disposable annual income is used …
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We use direct evidence on credit constraints to study their importance for household consumption growth and for welfare …
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risk associated with a disaster in stock markets should be revealed in household portfolios. That is, the framework that …
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This paper examines trends in household consumption and saving behaviour in each of the last three recessions in the UK …
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inquiry that reveals that education plays a major role in accessing more remunerative nonfarm employment. Other household …
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The paper analyses the economic policy-making in the first phase of the epidemic in five Central Europe countries, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, whose economic structure is characterized by strong export orientation. We focus on the participatory character of the governments'...
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Following the 1994 financial crisis, the rate of saving of the Mexican economy fell from 21. 7 percent to 19. 8 percent of GDP. The decline was associated with a reduction in the rate of external saving from 6. 9 to 0. 5 percent between 1994 and 1995. The overall reduction was not more dramatic...
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household saving behavior in two countries in each region (Mexico, Peru, Thailand and Taiwan). We make four contributions. First …. Second, rather than focusing only on total household saving, as is common in the literature, we disaggregate the population …, we construct forecasts of future aggregate household saving rates, based on demographic projections. Fourth, we provide …
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work relies on household surveys from 18 LAC countries to take a step back from the use of these indicators, and explore … are also driven by quality and coverage differences in household surveys and by the way in which the data is treated; c …) Standard household surveys in LAC are unable to capture the incomes of the richest sectors of society; so, the inequality we …
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In this paper the euro crisis is viewed as the most recent episode of the crisis of financedominated capitalism. Therefore, two major features of finance-dominated capitalism, the increasing inequality of income distribution and the rising imbalances of current accounts, are analysed for a set...
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