This paper investigates the impact of public employment on household saving rates in China using representative … household-level data. After controlling for a series of variables such as income, risk attitude, financial literacy, and … to a better understanding of Chinese household saving rates, which is of great importance given their extremely high …

China's urban household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s, accompanied by a dramatic increase in … China, which reformed the nationwide employer-based public housing system in 1998. This reform created an exogenous … variation in housing demand among urban households. Using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy, we find evidence that …

Using representative household surveys conducted in Thailand and Vietnam during the COVID-19 pandemic, we find that the … the savings position plays a crucial role, as the effects are especially pronounced for households that experienced a … decline in savings. This result contradicts a prediction from the life-cycle permanent income model with borrowing constraints …

This paper examines whether the determinants of household saving have changed over time and whether they are the same … specifications still perform strik ingly well and can explain the recent changes in household saving rates. As for the cross country … well to individual country samples. We found that household saving is still very sensitive to changes in inflation and real …

across states shows that the rise in top income shares can explain almost all of the accumulation of household debt held as a … financial asset by the household sector. Since the Great Recession, the saving glut of the rich has been financing government …

The article quantifies the contributions made by different household groups to the change in the aggregate household … labour market deterioration – the findings show that certain household groups reduced their expenditure over the course of …

concentration of household savings in Germany by estimating saving amounts, saving rates and shares in aggregate savings for … apparent. Over the years 2003 till 2013 we find an increase of the concentration of household savings across the income and … rates as input parameters for a macro simulation of the distribution of household incomes and savings we find that the …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using longterm time series … data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the premarital sex ratio on the household saving … to females) has a significant impact on the household saving rate in both India and the Republic of Korea, even after …

wealth assessment methodology in 2010 led to geographic discontinuities in household exposure to wealth taxes, along both the … imply that income effects may dominate substitution effects in household responses to rate of return shocks, which has …