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Shocks, income diversification and welfare in developing and transition countries
Omar Mahmoud, Toman - 2010
This dissertation takes a welfare perspective to analyze how rural households in developing countries manage risks ex-ante and cope with shocks ex-post. The first part looks at risk-coping strategies and analyzes the socio-economic consequences of AIDS-related mortality in rural sub-Saharan...
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Income inequality and saving
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; el Attar, Mayssun - 2012
Over the last three decades, average income for the bottom half of the US distribution increased by 8% while their average saving rate decreased by eight percentage points. Over the same period the US experienced a substantial increase in inequality and a continuous decrease in the aggregate...
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House Prices, Second Mortgages and Household Savings; An Empirical Investigation for the Netherlands, 1987-1994
Rouwendal, Jan; Alessie, Rob - 2002
paper we study the effect of this developmenton the demand for second mortgages and on the savings of Dutch households. We …) the savings of renters that may be considered as would-beowners. We find a significant effect of home equity on the demand … for second mortgages.Savings of homeowners decrease when house prices accelerate. We find no evidence that inc …
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Do Mandatory Pensions Decrease Household Savings? Evidence for the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob - 2000
income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch … households. The survey contains rich information on house-hold wealth, pension rights and savings attitudes. A result of the …
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Savings in Central Eastern Europe
Schrooten, Mechthild; Stephan, Sabine - 2001
The paper seeks to add to the existing literature on aggregate and private savings by focusing on transition economies …, aggregate and private savings are driven by almost the same forces – this is the central focus of the paper. The most important …
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Einkommensumverteilung schwächt privaten Verbrauch
Brenke, Karl - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 8, pp. 2-12
vermehrt gespart. Ein großer Teil der Haushalte - 40 Prozent - kann allerdings kein Geld zurücklegen. Sparen können vor allem … Rückmarsch. Haushalte mit hohen Einkünften sparen generell nicht nur mehr als die Bezieher mittlerer oder geringer Einkommen … Deutschland ist mithin auch auf die starke Einkommensverteilung zurückzuführen. Hinzukommen dürften Verhaltensänderungen …
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The British household panel survey and its income data
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2010
This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...
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Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes
Dobbelaere, Sabien; McCormack, Grace; Prinz, Daniel; … - 2022
Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers. For workers at acquired firms, takeovers are associated with a 8.5% drop in employment at the consolidated firm and a 2.6% drop in total labor income. These effects are persistent...
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Trends in U.S. family income mobility, 1967-2004
Bradbury, Katharine; Katz, Jane - 2009
Much of America's promise is predicated on the existence of economic mobilitythe idea that people are not limited or defined by where they start, but can move up the economic ladder based on their efforts and accomplishments. Family income mobilitychanges in individual families' real incomes...
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Saving after retirement and preferences for residual wealth
Fella, Giulio; Holm, Martin Blomhoff; Pugh, Thomas - 2024
We use administrative data for Norway to estimate an incomplete-market life-cycle model of retired singles and couples with a bequest motive, health-dependent utility, and uncertain longevity and health. We allow the parameters of the bequest utility to differ between households with and without...
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