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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America

Neidhöfer, Guido - 2016

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents ́and childrenś economic well-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between and within country setup, using harmonized micro data from 18 Latin...

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Social mobility and economic development

Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2021

We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting procedure that considers the participation of...

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Distributional effects of subsidizing retirement savings accounts : evidence from Germany

Corneo, Giacomo; Schröder, Carsten; König, Johannes - 2015

We empirically investigate the distributional consequences of the Riester scheme, the main private pension subsidization program in Germany. We find that 38% of the aggregate subsidy accrues to the top two deciles of the population, but only 7.3% to the bottom two. Nonetheless the Riester scheme...

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Domestic saving and investment revised : can the Feldstein-Horioka equation be used for policy analysis?

Sachsida, Adolfo; Mendonça, Mário Jorge - 2015

Based on the relation between investment and domestic saving proposed by Feldstein and Horioka (1980) to verify capital … autoregressive (SVAR) involving investment and saving in order to evaluate the effect of exogenous shocks through impulse response … showed that investment is sensitive to contemporaneous innovation on saving and this effect lasts for a long time. Regarding …

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A dynamic theory of the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle and financial frictions : re-estimation of the saving retention coefficient

Takahashi, Harutaka - 2020

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Household savings, capital investments and public policies : what drives the German current account?

Ruppert, Kilian; Stähler, Nikolai - 2020

pensionreforms led to an increase in the household savings rate in Germany until about2010. As domestic investment opportunities … could not absorb these additional sav-ings, they were partly invested abroad. The German current account-to-GDP ratiorose …. After 2010, private savings remained rather stable, but opportunities to investin Germany declined further. Our simulations …

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Capital mobility within EMU

Stirböck, Claudia; Heinemann, Friedrich - 1999

capital in the past. The conclusion is that within EMU domestic saving and investment will be less correlated than they were …

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The effect of investing abroad on investment at home : on the role of technology, tax savings, and internal capital markets

Goldbach, Stefan; Nagengast, Arne J.; Steinmüller, Elias; … - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between foreign and domestic investment activity of multinational enterprises. The … investment in fixed assets. The empirical approach, which rests upon extensive and intensive margin variation, is shown to … produce very robust results. These suggest a positive relationship between foreign and home investment in real capital. This …

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Worker's propensity to save, government budget, and income distribution in the extended Pasinetti model

Lee, Kai-Cheong - 1987

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Savings and industrialization : some hypotheses suggested by Lewis and others

Alam, M. Shahid - 1985

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