Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China /

China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-savings profile has become U-shaped. We find that rising income uncertainty and pension reforms help explain both of these phenomena. Using a panel of Chinese households covering the period 1989-2006, we docume...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Liu, Kai
مؤلفون آخرون: Chamon, Marcos, Prasad, Eswar
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/289
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF