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Einkommensumverteilung schwächt privaten Verbrauch
Brenke, Karl - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 8, pp. 2-12
Der private Verbrauch hat sich in den letzten Jahren in der Bundesrepublik nur schwach entwickelt. Stattdessen wurde vermehrt gespart. Ein großer Teil der Haushalte - 40 Prozent - kann allerdings kein Geld zurücklegen. Sparen können vor allem die Bezieher hoher Einkommen. Die zunehmende...
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Recent trends in consumption in Japan and the other Group of Seven (G7) countries
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2012
In this paper, we present data on recent trends in private consumption and in possible determinants of private consumption (such as GDP, household incomes, household saving rates, household wealth, and employment conditions) in the Group of Seven (G7) countries and find that there has been...
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The golden age of retirement
Smart Bakken, Line - 2006
The aim of this paper is to investigate income, saving and consumption for households around retirement age. When doing … investigating consumption trends of households. Register data files are used to construct households which are used in the analysis … throughout the paper. Modeling was done for a particular group of Norwegian households who were tracked through their retirement …
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The Household Finance and Consumption Survey : results from the second wave
Europäische Zentralbank / Eurosystem Household Finance … - 2016
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Retirement expectations, pension reforms, and their impact on private wealth accumulation
Bottazzi, Renata; Jappelli, Tullio; Padula, Mario - 2006
We estimate the effect of pension reforms on households' expectations of retirement outcomes and private wealth …
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Idiosyncratic Labour Income Risk and Aggregate Consumption: an Unobserved Component Approach
Pozzi, Lorenzo - 2007
We investigate the importance of aggregate and consumer-specific or idiosyncratic labour income risk for aggregate consumption changes in the US over the period 1952-2001. Theoretically, the effect of labour income risk on consumption changes is decomposed into an aggregate and into an...
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Household consumption through recent recessions
Crossley, Thomas F.; Low, Hamish; O'Dea, Cormac - 2011
- had some success in encouraging households to bring forward some durable purchases. …
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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 element shaping the success of KiwiSaver is the extent to which individuals participate in the scheme, given its voluntary nature; and, having chosen to participate, the extent to...
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Options to Narrow New Zealand's Saving – Investment Imbalance
Brook, Anne-Marie - 2014
The Treasury has, at times, suggested giving greater consideration to reforms to narrow the Saving-Investment gap. However, there has been less discussion of specific policy options for doing this. This paper helps to fill the gap by asking what policy reforms could help to narrow the...
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The Effect of Public Pension Eligibility Age on Household Saving: Evidence from a New Zealand Natural Experiment
Talosaga, Talosaga; Vink, Mark - 2014
to face higher eligibility ages. The policy change is found to have increased average saving rates of affected households …, particularly among middle-income and older households. The increase in saving rates is associated with higher household labour …
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