We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left …-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higher-order risk. We estimate our extended income process by GMM for household …

This paper analyzes the impact increased offshoring has on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large … second moments, i.e. the variance of incomes. It provides an assessment that directly connects labor income risk and … offshoring trends at the sector level. Importantly, we distinguish between transitory and permanent shocks to individual income …

facing uninsurable idiosyncratic labor income risk. The Ramsey government internalizes the general equilibrium feedback of … optimal aggregate saving rate is independent of income risk. The optimal time-invariant tax on capital is increasing in income … that the optimal steady state saving rate is increasing in income risk if and only if the intertemporal elasticity of …