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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

Housing is an important sector of the economy. It has widespread implications for investment, banking, saving and employment. Home ownership has been linked to building social capital and a sense of community. Furthermore housing equity is a significant element of retirement accumulation for...

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Pensions, Savings and Housing: A Life-cycle Framework with Policy Simulations

Creedy, John; Gemmell, Norman; Scobie, Grant - 2014

pay-as-you-go universal pension. In addition, the model allows for a compulsory private retirement savings scheme …

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Wealth Concentration over the Path of Development: Sweden, 1873-2006

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2007

We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evidence from estate- and wealth tax data, estimates of foreign and domestic family firm-wealth and of pension and...

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Factor Substitution, Income Distribution, and Growth in a Generalized Neoclassical Model

Irmen, Andreas; Klump, Rainer - 2007

asymmetries of savings out of factor incomes. This generalized model helps to shed new light on a recent debate concerning the … the particular savings hypothesis. However, if savings out of capital income are substantial so that a certain threshold …

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Risky human capital investment, income distribution, and macroeconomic dynamics

Grossmann, Volker - 2003

This paper analyzes the interaction between intergenerational wealth transmission, human capital investments under uninsurable labor income risk, and economic growth in a small open overlapping-generations economy with heterogeneous agents. It demonstrates how the role of the personal income...

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Factor substitution, income distribution, and growth in a generalized neoclassical model

Irmen, Andreas; Klump, Rainer - 2007

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Aggregate savings and external imbalances in China

Yang, Dennis Tao - 2012

. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, whereas its current account surplus exceeded … distortions. I document major trends in aggregate savings, investment, trade, and net foreign asset positions in China, and …

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Determinants of occupational pension provision in Germany

Dummann, Kathrin - 2007

attributes and people's savings motives. …

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Savings Adequacy Uncertainty: Driver or Obstacle to Increased Pension Contributions?

van Schie, Ron J.G.; Donkers, Bas; Dellaert, Benedict G.C. - 2012

data from a representative Dutch household panel to study the impact of uncertainty regarding one's savings adequacy on … retirement savings contributions and information search processes. We combine ideas from the literature in psychology and … economics that provide opposing predictions regarding the impact of uncertainty on retirement savings contributions. Our results …

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Aging, saving, and public pensions in Japan

Horioka, Charles Yuji; Suzuki, Wataru; Hatta, Tatsuo - 2007

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...

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