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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w28473 |
来源ID | Working Paper 28473 |
Stochastic Earnings Growth and Equilibrium Wealth Distributions | |
Thomas J. Sargent; Neng Wang; Jinqiang Yang | |
发表日期 | 2021-03-22 |
出版年 | 2021 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | The cross-section distribution of U.S. wealth is more skewed than the distribution of labor earnings. Stachurski and Toda (2019) explain how plain vanilla Bewley-Aiyagari-Huggett (BAH) models with infinitely lived agents can't generate that pattern because an equilibrium risk-free rate is lower than the time rate of preference and each person's wealth process is stationary. We provide two modifications of a BAH model that generate this pattern: (1) overlapping generations of agents who have low wealth at birth and pass through N life-stage transitions of stochastic lengths, and (2) labor-earnings processes that exhibit stochastic growth. With only a few parameters such a model can well approximate mappings from the Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient for cross-sections of labor earnings to their counterparts for cross sections of wealth. Three forces amplify inequality in wealth relative to inequality in labor-earnings: stochastic life-stage transitions; a precautionary savings motive for high wage earners that is especially strong after they receive positive permanent earnings shocks; and an energetic life-cycle saving motive for agents who have low wealth at birth. An equilibrium risk-free interest rate that exceeds a time preference rate fosters a fat-tailed wealth distribution. |
主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Market Structure and Distribution ; Macroeconomics ; Consumption and Investment |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28473 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586238 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Thomas J. Sargent,Neng Wang,Jinqiang Yang. Stochastic Earnings Growth and Equilibrium Wealth Distributions. 2021. |
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