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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Tác giả chính: Liu, Kai
Tác giả khác: Chamon, Marcos, Prasad, Eswar
Định dạng: Tạp chí
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
Loạt:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/289
Truy cập trực tuyến:Full text available on IMF