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Essays on wage risk, job mobility and income uncertainty
Liu, Kai - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819089
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An Allocation Analysis of Polish Household Savings Invested in Financial Assets, 2003-2014
Dębski, Wiesław - 2019
This article addresses the allocation of Polish household savings that are invested in financial assets. As an economic … category, these savings are very important in every country because they determine investments in the national economy, thereby … personal savings and their structure is essential because they change due to changing economic circumstances, changing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902868
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The saving and employment effects of higher job loss risk
Juelsrud, Ragnar E.; Wold, Ella Getz - 2019
behavior. We find that a one percentage point increase in job loss risk increases liquid savings by roughly 1.2 - 2.0 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214377
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An allocation analysis of Polish household savings invested in financial assets, 2003 - 2014
Dębski, Wiesław; Świderski, Bartosz - In: Contemporary economics 10 (2016) 2, pp. 123-136
This article addresses the allocation of Polish household savings that are invested in financial assets. As an economic … category, these savings are very important in every country because they determine investments in the national economy, thereby … personal savings and their structure is essential because they change due to changing economic circumstances, changing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515788
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Family migration and relative earnings potentials
Foged, Mette - 2016
A unitarian model of family migration in which families may discount wives' private gains is used to derive testable predictions regarding the type of couples that select into migrating. The empirical tests show that gender neutral family migration cannot be rejected against the alternative of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528839
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The long-term impacts of international migration : evidence from a lottery
Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J.; Rohorua, Halahingano; … - 2015
their immediate family, who have substantially higher consumption, durable asset ownership, savings, and dietary diversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387152
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Family size, sibling rivalry and migration : evidence from Mexico
Bratti, Massimiliano; Fiore, Simona; Mendola, Mariapia - 2016
This paper examines the causal effects of family size and demographic structure on offspring's international migration. We use rich survey data from Mexico to estimate the impact of sibship size, birth order and sibling composition on teenagers' and young adults' migration outcomes. We find no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596080
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Migration and co-residence choices : evidence from Mexico
Bertoli, Simone; Murard, Elie - 2017
Household composition is traditionally regarded as exogenous in economic analyses. The migration literature typically assumes that the migration of a household member is not associated with further variations in co-residence choices. We rely on a large Mexican panel survey to provide novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764649
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Household Search or Individual Search : Does it Matter? Evidence from Lifetime Inequality Estimates
Flabbi, Luca - 2012
Search Models of the labor market are widespread and influential but they usually ignore that labor market decisions are frequently taken at the household level. We fill this gap by developing and estimating an household search model with on-the-job search and labor supply. We build on previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099113
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Household Search and the Aggregate Labor Market
Mankart, Jochen - 2016
We develop a theoretical model with labor market frictions, incomplete financial markets and with households which have two members. Households face unemployment risks but their members adjust their labor supplies to insure against unemployment. We use the model to explain the cyclical...
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