Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58915 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6125
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We develop a new approach to the decomposition of income risk within a nonstationary model of intertemporal choice. The approach allows for changes in income risk over the life-cycle and with the business cycle. It requires only repeated cross-section data and can allow for mixtures of persistent and transitory components in the dynamic process for income. Evidence from a stochastic simulation of consumption choices in a nonstationarity environment is used to show the robustness of the method for decomposing income risk. The approach is used to investigate the changes in income risk in Britain across the inequality growth period from the late 1970s to the late 1990s. Peaks in the variance of permanent shocks are shown to occur in the middle of the 1980s and the early 1990s.
Subjects: 
income risk
consumption
nonstationarity
inequality
JEL: 
C30
D52
D91
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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