We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel … information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information … contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk. The …

through 2001, we analyse the impact of wealth, savings, and debt position on job exit rates. We find evidence for a positive …In the literature theoretical models have appeared that predict a positive impact of the level of individual wealth on … to accumulate wealth throughout their working life and whose residual working life is relatively short. In the …

Private wealth holdings are likely to become an increasingly important determinant in the job exit decision of elderly … workers. Net wealth may correlate with worker's characteristics that also determine the exit out of a job. It is therefore … (marginal) effect of wealth on the job exit rate. But even with a rich set of regressors the question remains whether there are …

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 … decades. -- savings ; wealth ; demographic change …

-facilitated Life Course Savings Scheme and who increase private savings to fully counter the impact of the drop in public wealth. A …In January 2006, the Dutch government implemented a pension reform that substantially reduced the public pension wealth … of workers born in 1950 or later. At the same time, a tax-facilitated savings plan was introduced that substantially …