Precautionary savings or working longer hours?

Do Savings Predict Death? Precautionary Savings during an Epidemic

Using a four-round panel dataset from Kagera, Tanzania, we examine whether households that suffer a death engage in precautionary savings to smooth consumption over the crisis. Under Deaton’s buffer-stock hypothesis, savings equal the present value of future falls in income. In that case, we should see greater accumulation of assets among households which anticipate a death, and liquidation of ...

Return migration, uncertainty and precautionary savings.

"This paper presents a life-cycle model where migrants determine re-migration and consumption simultaneously in a stochastic environment. Whether precautionary savings of migrants are above or below those of natives is ambiguous in general--the sign depends on the risk in host- and home-country labor markets and on the correlation of labor market shocks. Furthermore, the effect of an uncertain ...

Myths and Facts about Working Longer Hours in Europe : a Message from the Etuc

The physiotherapy workforce is ageing, becoming more masculinised, and is working longer hours: a demographic study.

QUESTION Is the physiotherapy workforce significantly older in 2001 than 1986? What is the cumulative attrition of the workforce to 2001 and what is the predicted attrition by 2026? Is the workforce becoming masculinised? Is the workforce working longer hours? DESIGN Observational study using Australian Bureau of Statistics census data from 1986 to 2001 to predict workforce characteristics in...

Students take advantage of longer library hours

With the f irs t p re s id e n t ia l p r im aries only th ree m on ths aw ay, c a m p u s g ro u p s h av e begun to address rates of stu­ dent voter registration. Newly fo rm e d c a m p u s i n i t i a t iv e N D V otes’08, a n o n p a r t i s a n ed u ca t io n a l cam p a ig n s p o n ­ sored by the Center for Social Concerns, is spearheading the efforts. Senior Mike McKenna, CSC co o rd i...