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Using administrative data on health insurance, retirement, and leave benefits, we find within-firm variation accounts for a dramatically lower percentage of total variation in benefits than in wages. We also document sharply higher between-firm variation in nonwage benefits than in wages. We...
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more at the zero lower bound than it does during normal times. Central to this result is a precautionary savings channel …. By stimulating labor demand, hiring subsidies reduce unemployment risk and precautionary savings. This increases the …
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-demographic attributes and people's savings motives. …
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Sparquote zu. Außerdem beeinflußt die Art der sozialen Sicherung die Höhe der Sparquote. Selbständigen-Haushalte sparen einen … Abschluß von Lebensversicherungen treffen. (Nichtbeamtete) Arbeitnehmer dagegen sparen einen Teil ihres Einkommens nicht …In recent years the aggregate savings ratio in Germany has declined. The basic causes are, above all, the rise in …
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Based on the Italian Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) and the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP), we show that household consumption drops after a child moves out of a household, while at the same time, per capita consumption increases significantly. Parents approximately upgrade...
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Much empirical research in economics is based on data from household surveys. Panel surveys are particularly valuable for understanding dynamics and heterogeneity. A possible concern with panel surveys is that survey participation itself may alter subsequent behavior. We provide novel evidence...
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Much of the focus of the UK pensions policy debate over the past decade has been on the adequacy (or otherwise) of private retirement saving. In this paper, we present the first assessment of the optimality of the retirement resources of English couple households born in the 1940s. Here,...
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Much empirical research in economics is based on data from household surveys. Panel surveys are particularly valuable for understanding dynamics and heterogeneity. A possible concern with panel surveys is that survey participation itself may alter subsequent behavior. We provide novel evidence...
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