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Intergenerational Precautionary Savings in Europe
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Abstract In this paper, we study whether precautionary saving motives have an intergenerational component; namely whether and to what extent the income uncertainty of younger generations affects the savings of their parents. To this end, we exploit a cross-country European longitudinal household dataset coll... mehr
In this paper, we study whether precautionary saving motives have an intergenerational component; namely whether and to what extent the income uncertainty of younger generations affects the savings of their parents. To this end, we exploit a cross-country European longitudinal household dataset collecting information on parents and their offspring, augmented with indicators for their offspring's income risk. We find that savings significantly respond to changes in income risk, also across generations. This finding is robust to several checks and displays heterogeneity across countries, which is consistent with substitutability between private and public insurance tools.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Sparen; private Vorsorge; Europa; Einkommensverhältnisse; Generationenverhältnis; Verhalten
Klassifikation
soziale Sicherung
Freie Schlagwörter
EU-SILC 2004-2015
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Seitenangabe
S. 427-450
Zeitschriftentitel
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 84 (2022) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12461
ISSN
1468-0084
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)