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Using home maintenance and repairs to smooth variable earnings
Gyourko, Joseph; Tracy, Joseph - 2003
Recent research indicates that the marked increase in U.S. income inequality over the last twenty-five years has not been matched by a similar increase in consumption inequality. This paper examines the role of saving/dissaving in a house as a vehicle for consumption smoothing. Data from the...
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KiwiSaver: An Initial Evaluation of the Impact on Retirement Saving
Law, David; Meehan, Lisa; Scobie, Grant M - 2011
KiwiSaver is a voluntary savings scheme aimed at increasing the retirement wealth of a target population. A critical … nature; and, having chosen to participate, the extent to which their attitudes and practices toward savings have been …. We find that members adjust their savings portfolio such that only about one third of the contributions they make to …
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KiwiSaver and the Accumulation of Net Wealth
Law, David; Scobie, Grant M - 2014
The objective of this paper is to analyse the extent to which membership of KiwiSaver has been associated with greater accumulations of net wealth. The paper utilises two linked sources of data which cover the period 2002 to 2010: Statistics New Zealand's Survey of Family, Income and Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115689
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Der Einfluss von Steuern auf Ersparnisbildung und Altersvorsorge: Experimentelle und qualitative Untersuchungen
Tschinkl, Dominik - 2021
taxed in the system of a classic income tax. The latter should have a negative effect on the savings decision. The results …
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Food price inflation and children's schooling
Grimm, Michael - 2008
the fact that food crop farmers and cotton farmers were exposed differently to that shock to estimate the income … elasticity of school enrolment. The results suggest that the shock-induced loss in purchasing power had an immediate effect on …
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Housing in the Household Portfolio and Implications for Retirement Saving: Some Initial Finding from SOFIE
Scobie, Grant; Le, Trinh; Gibson, John - 2007
for the USA ; • Empirical results indicate that even if households planned to draw down half of housing equity to support …
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Long-Term Labor Force Exit and Economic Well-Being: A Cross-National Comparison of Public and Private Income Support
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Lillard, Dean R.; Valenti, Paola M. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 146-152
This paper examines how the economic well-being of households changes after a male household member exits the labor force. We examine, in four countries, labor force exits at various ages and present evidence on household income from various sources before and after the exit occurs. We focus on...
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The economic security index: A new measure for research and policy analysis
Hacker, Jacob S.; Huber, Gregory Alain; Nichols, Austin; … - 2012
This paper presents the Economic Security Index (ESI), a new, more comprehensive measure of economic insecurity. By combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket...
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Family job search and wealth: The added worker effect revisited
García Peréz, José Ignacio; Rendón, Sílvio - In: Quantitative Economics 11 (2020) 4, pp. 1431-1459
the interdependency between household members is understated if wealth and savings are not considered. Finally, we show …
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Consumption inequality and partial insurance
Blundell, Richard W.; Pistaferri, Luigi; Preston, Ian - 2004
This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the degree of insurance to income shocks. It combines panel data on income from the PSID with consumption data from repeated CEX cross-sections and distinguishes between permanent...
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