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Intergenerational altruism and neoclassical growth models
Michel, Philippe; Thibault, Emmanuel; Vidal, Jean-Pierre - 2004
This paper surveys intergenerational altruism in neoclassical growth models. It first examines Barro's approach to … intergenerational altruism, whereby successive generations are linked by recursive altruistic preferences. Individuals have an … intergenerational altruism. Other forms of altruism, referred to as ad hoc altruism, are also examined, along with their implications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009639441
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Mortgage indebtedness and household financial distress
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Lojschova, Adriana; … - 2010
Using comparable survey data from twelve European countries from 1994 to 2001 we investigate households’ attitudes towards mortgage indebtedness. We find that a given debt burden creates much higher distress in countries with fewer mortgage holders relative to countries where a significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640403
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Who lost the most?
Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Ziegelmeyer, Michael - 2011
We study how and to what extent private households are affected by the recent financial crisis and how their financial decisions are in uenced by this shock. Our analysis reveals that individuals with low levels of financial literacy are less likely to have invested in the stock market and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640632
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Wealth mobility and dynamics over entire individual working life cycles
Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2011
We study taxable wealth in unique Swedish administrative data, annually following a large sample of households over a period of almost 40 years. The main data limitation is non-observability of wealth for those below the tax exemption level. This implies that much of the focus of the paper is on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640634
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Behavioural characteristics and financial distress
McCarthy, Yvonne - 2011
having a stronger impact on the incidence of financial distress than education or financial literacy. The results raise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640636
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Subprime consumer credit demand
Alan, Sule; Dumitrescu, Ruxandra; Loranth, Gyongyi - 2011
We test the interest rate sensitivity of subprime credit card borrowers using a unique panel data set from a UK credit card company. What is novel about our contribution is that we were given details of a randomized interest rate experiment conducted by the lender between October 2006 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640638
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Europäisches Jahr für aktive Altern und Solidarität zwischen den Generationen 2012 : Schlussfolgerungen der EWSA Koordinierungsgruppe
Europäischer Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss - 2013
The European Year 2012 was, to a certain extent, a framework for raising awareness of the contribution that older people make to society and mobilising stakeholders and policymakers at all levels to promote active ageing and solidarity between generations.To coordinate its activities during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249532
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Turkey and the European Union: Just another enlargement?
Hughes, Kirsty - 2004
, Turkeyu0092s economy is just 1.9% of EU-25 GDP. Assuming average annual growth of 5%, it would be 2.9% of GDP on accession in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636514
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Evaluation of EU support to social protection in external action 2007 - 2013 : Final Report ; Volume I – Main Report
MacKellar, Forrest Landis (contributor);  … - PARTICIP GmbH - 2018
The evaluation has three objectives: Provide an assessment on the attained results, their impact and sustainability, the good practices and pitfalls in Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance I(IPA I), European Neighbourhood Partnership Instrument (ENPI), Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011887701
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Impact of the recession on age management policies - Case Study : Vienna General Hospital (AKH Wien), Austria
Cacace, Mirella - 2012
Vienna General Hospital sees the importance of the tackling the issue of ageing in terms of organisational strategy, organisational culture, personal development, organisation of work, and individual health of employees. The human resource department at Vienna General Hospital is responsible for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902479