How important is intra-household risk sharing for savings and labor supply?

While it is recognized that the family is a risk-sharing institution, little is known about the quantitative effects of this source of insurance on savings and labor supply. In this paper, we present a model where workers (females and males) are subject to idiosyncratic employment risk and where cap...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic details
Volume:	60
Main Author:	Ortigueira, Salvador Siassi, Nawid
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Trade Academic
Place of publication:	AMSTERDAM Elsevier B.V 01.09.2013 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
published in:	Journal of monetary economics Vol. 60; no. 6; pp. 650 - 666
Data of publication:	September 2013
ISSN:	0304-3932 1873-1295
EISSN:	1873-1295
Discipline:	Economics Business
Subjects:	Precautionary motive Idiosyncratic unemployment risk Intra-household risk sharing Incomplete markets Multi-person households Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Business, Finance Labor supply Unemployment insurance Financial markets Unemployment Precautionary motive Idiosyncratic unemployment risk Intra-household risk sharing Incomplete markets Multi-person households INEQUALITY OPTIMAL TAXATION PRECAUTIONARY SAVINGS IDIOSYNCRATIC RISK UNEMPLOYMENT-INSURANCE CONSUMPTION
Online Access:	available in Bonn?
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Knowledge Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2013 Web of Science CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS