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China’s household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-savings profile has become U-shaped. We find that rising income uncertainty and pension reforms help explain both of these phenomena. Using a panel of Chinese households covering the period 1989-2006, we...
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research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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The size of the public sector in terms of employment and compensation has a strong life-cycle dimension. We establish a quantitative partial-equilibrium life-cycle model with incomplete markets, private and public sectors, and risk-averse workers, and use it to (i) calculate three dimensions of...
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returns due to, for example, the possibilities of job loss, injury and insufficient income in retirement. The index proposed …
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