The paper analyses the impact of income uncertainty on household saving. Using a panel of Polish households for 1997-2000 we decompose uncertainty of household income into a variance of shocks to permanent income and a variance of shocks to transitory income. Then we regress households' savings...

In this paper we analyse the saving mobility of Polish households, e.g. the mobility of households between classes of different saving rates. The analysis is based on the household budget panel data of 3001 Polish households surveyed in the same month during four consecutive years. The panel...