percentage losses in retirement savings as a result of more frequent spells of unemployment. Higher income worker losses are more …The link between unemployment and pension accumulations is conceptually straightforward; periods of unemployment lead … of the timing and frequency of unemployment spells. We hypothesize that unemployment is more likely during periods in …

households. We measure expectations on an individual basisinstead of generalized risk measures as it is common in existing … studies. We use aunique panel data set on household savings. We find that that a higher unemploymentexpectation significantly … decreases savings. However, we are not able to identify asignificant relationship between general future income expectations and …

larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given the self …-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I analyze the provision of benefits targeted at these risks using a calibrated … search model with (i) precautionary savings, (ii) work opportunities in paid- and self-employment, (iii) skill heterogeneity …

This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is … broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the risk, once unemployed, of not getting reemployed. The paper …

-being and paradoxically can be even more harmful than actual job loss with subsequent unemployment. …

with subsequent unemployment. …

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to …) and are less likely to save money. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity attitudes are only weak predictors of …

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to …) and are less likely to save money. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity attitudes are only weak predictors of …