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We analyze the consumption and wealth inequality in an OLG model with mandatory pension systems. Our framework features … consumption inequality and wealth inequality. Second, a pension system reform from a defined benefit to a defined contribution … works to reinforce consumption inequality and reduce wealth inequality. Third, minimum pension benefits are able to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876189
We analyze the consumption and wealth inequality in an OLG model with mandatory pension systems. Our framework features … consumption inequality and wealth inequality. Second, a pension system reform from a defined benefit to a defined contribution … works to reinforce consumption inequality and reduce wealth inequality. Third, minimum pension benefits are able to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872162
We analyze the consumption and wealth inequality in an OLG model with mandatory pension systems. Our framework features … consumption inequality and wealth inequality. Second, a pension system reform from a defined benefit to a defined contribution … works to reinforce consumption inequality and reduce wealth inequality. Third, minimum pension benefits are able to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872184
human wealth. The latter mitigates permanent-income inequality, though its influence is diminished by the growing importance … of assets in lifetime wealth. Average expenditures and CE inequality roughly doubled between 1983 and 2016 and, to weigh … consumption, as well as uncertainty and demographic composition. Rising inequality has offset about 1/4 of the welfare gains from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014536952
human wealth. The latter mitigates permanent‐income inequality, though its influence is diminished by the growing importance … of assets in lifetime wealth. Average expenditures and CE inequality roughly doubled between 1983 and 2016 and, to weigh … consumption, as well as uncertainty and demographic composition. Rising inequality has offset about 1/4 of the welfare gains from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013382060
Recent trends in inequality and poverty across Western Canada, a region known for its energy resources, seem to … correspond to movements in energy prices, with much of the rise in inequality and decline in poverty taking place during the … could potentially alter the aggregates of inequality and poverty, depending on how these gains are distributed across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184390
feature is coupled with the low efficiency of thermal energy consumption of households as a result of poor insulation of … consumption. It is therefore necessary to develop energy sector model to be able to evaluate not only the energy consumption …, production and consumption blocks. A separate place is taken by electricity generation hydroelectric power plants (HPP), net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008645071
feature is coupled with the low efficiency of thermal energy consumption of households as a result of poor insulation of … consumption. It is therefore necessary to develop energy sector model to be able to evaluate not only the energy consumption …, production and consumption blocks. A separate place is taken by electricity generation hydroelectric power plants (HPP), net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258382
Much of the literature on the effect of housing wealth on consumption has been embedded in a simple life-cycle model in … the classic Ando-Modigliani consumption function augmented by housing wealth can be deduced. It is shown that the deeper … population) as well as in mortgage markets have led to a structural break in the effect of housing wealth on consumption in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337472
effect of wealth shocks on household consumption and individual expectations of the future. Many household experienced a … significant wealth shocks, but these shocks led to modest spending effects and small revisions to expectations regarding future … bequests. Expectations of bequests seem particularly tied to housing wealth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009526546