response functions of earnings shocks and find important asymmetries: Positive shocks to high-income individuals are quite … transitory, whereas negative shocks are very persistent; the opposite is true for low-income individuals. Finally, we use these …

Financial markets provide imperfect insurance of labor income risk. However, workers can partly insure against labor … market risk by commuting to adjacent regions. Since commuters own wage claims to output produced in adjacent regions, the … business cycle in the neighborhood becomes a relevant risk factor at the regional level. In our empirical analysis for US …

ownership ; tenure choice ; first-time home-buyers ; marriage ; income risk … earnings risk which occurred after 1980 can easily account for the remaining decline in young home ownership. -- Housing ; home …