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Adverse economic shocks occur frequently and may cause individuals to reevaluate key life decisions in ways that have lasting consequences for themselves and the economy. These life decisions are fundamentally tied to specific periods of an individual's career, and economic shocks may therefore...
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opposite effects on labor markets, specifically on informality and unemployment duration. NCP offers a milder trade-off as it …
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We propose a novel approach to estimate household income uncertainty at various future horizons, and characterize how the estimated uncertainty evolves over the life cycle. We measure income uncertainty as the variance of linear forecast errors conditional on information available to households...
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This paper investigates how of systematic risk varies over the lifecycle of the firm. If market equity beta is … determined by firm characteristics as the literature on the determinants of systematic risk holds, and if those characteristics … determinants of beta constant, the coefficient of systematic risk tends to fall in magnitude following a nonlinear pattern as firm …
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We study workers' idiosyncratic earnings risk over the life-cycle using a German administrative data set. Positive and … incomplete markets model. Moreover, age-varying risk implies a linear increase in consumption inequality late in working life …
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involuntary or accidental. Moreover, parameter estimates using subjective mortality risk perform better in predicting out … influenced more strongly by individual-level beliefs about mortality risk than by group level mortality risk …
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We propose a novel approach to estimate household income uncertainty at various future horizons and characterize how the estimated uncertainty evolves over the life cycle. We measure income uncertainty as the variance of linear forecast errors conditional on information available to households...
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