We analyze the impact of population aging on Japan's household saving rate and on its public pension system and the … impact of that system on Japan's household saving rate and obtain the following results: first, the age structure of Japan …'s population can explain the level of, and past and future trends in, its household saving rate; second, the rapid aging of Japan …

a new panel survey (SOFIE) to study housing wealth in household portfolios. It then estimates the rates of saving that … selected comparator countries; • Housing represents a major share of household wealth, and this share has risen in line with … the increase in house prices; • The composition of household portfolios is comparable to other selected countries except …

than the flow measures of household savings. Finally a series of adjustments are made to the flow measures of household and … sectoral saving rates for New Zealand, as derived from the national accounts. It also presents estimates for the household … sector, of the stock measure of savings (changes in net wealth). The latter estimates are found to be consistently greater …

This paper describes a structural dynamic microsimulation model of the household that has been developed to explore …

savings, investments and debts by couple members, and how these vary by individual and household characteristics. A particular …This paper builds on the existing literature about the distribution of financial resources within the household between … couple members. Using data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) we examine the ownership of, and amounts held in …

insurance between the household categories than in the difference in their savings rates. Whereas the average amount saved on … Sparquote zu. Außerdem beeinflußt die Art der sozialen Sicherung die Höhe der Sparquote. Selbständigen-Haushalte sparen einen … Abschluß von Lebensversicherungen treffen. (Nichtbeamtete) Arbeitnehmer dagegen sparen einen Teil ihres Einkommens nicht …

In this paper, we conduct a dynamic panel analysis of the determinants of the household saving rate in China using a … life cycle model and panel data on Chinese provinces for the 1995-2004 period from China's household survey. We find that … China's household saving rate has been high and rising and that the main determinants of variations over time and over space …

investigated the causes of people's anxieties about life after the age of 65 using household data from countries with different … social contexts: Japan, the United States, and China. This research uncovered three major findings. First, the speed of … lessens people's levels of anxiety about their older years in Japan and the United States. Third, living with a child does not …

This paper investigates empirically why Japan's household savings rate fell in the 1990s. We constructed an economic …'s household savings rate. Our simulation analysis demonstrated that if the proportion of liquidity-constrained households in the … 1990s had stayed at the level as that of the late 1980s, the household savings rate would have increased by four percent …