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or long-term unemployment, may occur during working years. Personal disaster risk alters lifetime ex-ante investment …
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We study the impact of risky human capital in life-cycle portfolio choice and survey the academic literature on the optimal asset allocation over the individual's life-cycle. A distinction is made between the riskless conception of human capital as having bond-like characteristics, and the risky...
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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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We show that the decision to participate in the stock market depends on the ability of equities to hedge the individual permanent earnings shocks, consistent with implications of life-cycle models. Those households who refrain from stock investing display positive correlation between their own...
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unemployment in the future that lowers expected future income, they will save more today. In this paper, we test this hypothesis by … looking at the expenditure response of workers to the change in unemployment risk measured at the occupational level. We find … that occupational unemployment risk does not have a large impact on consumption expenditure. However, despite investigating …
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