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persistence. -- Precautionary savings ; unemployment insurance ; long-term unemployment ; income uncertainty … (2005). We extend it by unemployment risk using Markov chains to model the transition between different employment states …, short-term as well as long-term unemployment. This allows us to examine the effects of persistence in the unemployment …
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Households can rely on private savings or on public unemployment insurance to hedge against the risk of becoming … effects of unemployment on the portfolio choice of households in the US and in Germany. We distinguish short- and long …-term unemployment and find that, in case of short-term unemployment, unemployment insurance offsets the negative impact of unemployment …
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(2005). We extend it by unemployment risk using Markov chains to model the transition between different employment states …, short-term as well as long-term unemployment. This allows us to examine the effects of persistence in the unemployment … process on portfolio choice. Our main findings are, first, that in case of short-term unemployment only, social security …
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(2005). We extend it by unemployment risk using Markov chains to model the transition between different employment states …, short-term as well as long-term unemployment. This allows us to examine the effects of persistence in the unemployment … process on portfolio choice. Our main findings are, first, that in case of short-term unemployment only, social security …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144138
It is well known that the implicit insurance provided by labor income taxes can reduce total saving. We show that this insurance can change the composition of saving as well because the reduction in labor-income risk may affect the amount of financial risk that an individual chooses to bear....
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-term unemployment spells to have permanent effects on subsequent labor income prospects. The risk of losing future labor income could …
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I show that countercyclical earnings dynamics can have quantitatively important effects on saving and portfolio choice decisions over the life cycle. During expansions (recessions) when expected future earnings growth is high (low), households save less (more) and also invest a higher (lower)...
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Households face earnings risk which is non-normal and varies by age and over the income distribution. We show that allowing for these rich features of earnings dynamics, in the context of a structurally estimated life-cycle portfolio choice model, helps to rationalize the limited participation...
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I numerically solve realistically calibrated life cycle consumption-investment problems in continuous time featuring stochastic mortality risk driven by jumps, unspanned labor income as well as short-sale and liquidity constraints and a simple insurance. I compare models with deterministic and...
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This paper analyzes how the combination of borrowing constraints and idiosyncratic risk affects the equity premium in an overlapping generations economy. I find that introducing a zero-borrowing constraint in an economy without idiosyncratic risk increases the equity premium by 70 percent, which...
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