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The Dynamics of Social Assistance Receipt: Measurement and Modelling Issues, with an Application to Britain

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen P. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

We model the dynamics of social assistance benefit receipt in Britain using data from the British Household Panel Survey, waves 1-15. First, we discuss definitions of social assistance benefit receipt, and present information about the trends between 1991 and 2005 in the receipt of social...

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Differential Income Taxation and Household Asset Allocation

Ochmann, Richard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper empirically investigates the effects of differential income taxation on households' portfolio choice and asset allocation applying a two-stage budgeting model of asset demand to German survey data. The model is structured into the discrete asset choice and the continuous asset choice,...

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Distributional and Welfare Effects of Germany's Year 2000 Tax Reform

Ochmann, Richard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

is estimated in a structural model for household savings and asset demand applied to German survey data. Significant … savings and alter the structure of asset demand as a result of shifts in relative asset prices. As a consequence, utility …

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Modelling Low Income Transitions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen P. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first-order Markov models that control for initial conditions effects (those found to be poor in the base year may be a nonrandom sample) and for attrition (panel retention may also be non-random). Our econometric model is a form of...

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Liquidity Constraints and the Permanent Income Hypothesis: Pseudo Panel Estimation with German Consumption Survey Data

Beznoska, Martin; Ochmann, Richard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

This paper empirically investigates the relevance of liquidity constraints and excess sensitivity in intertemporal household consumption. Using a pseudo panel that has been constructed on rich German consumption survey data, we estimate the consumption responses to permanent and transitory...

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Household Savings Decision and Income Uncertainty

Beznoska, Martin; Ochmann, Richard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

uncertainty on households' consumption-savings decision. Applying a structural demand model to German survey data, we estimate the … uncompensated interest rate elasticity for savings, in line with the literature, to around zero. Accordingly, any policy …-induced variation of net returns to savings is expected to have no significant effects on the level of savings. Moreover, we find …

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Do Wealthier Households Save More?: The Impact of the Demographic Factor

Belke, Ansgar; Dreger, Christian; Ochmann, Richard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

the savings rate is not homogeneous. On average, the effect attributed to real estate dominates the other components of … wealth. In addition, the savings rate strongly responds to demographic trends. Besides the direct impact of the age structure …, an indirect effect arises through the accumulation of wealth. The savings rate does not decrease with age in a monotonic …

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