Hedging Labor Income Risk over the Life-Cycle

39 Pages Posted: 29 Oct 2019

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Fabio C. Bagliano

University of Turin - Department of Economics and Statistics; Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies (CeRP); University of Turin - Collegio Carlo Alberto

Raffaele Corvino

University of Torino & CERP

Carolina Fugazza

University of Torino - Department of Economics ESOMAS

Giovanna Nicodano

University of Turin - Department ESOMAS; Collegio Carlo Alberto; CEPR; EGCI; Netspar

Date Written: October 25, 2019

Abstract

We show that the decision to participate in the stock market depends on the ability of equities to hedge the individual permanent earnings shocks, consistent with implications of life-cycle models. Those households who refrain from stock investing display positive correlation between their own permanent income innovations and market returns. These results owe to a two-step empirical strategy. First, a minimum distance estimation disentangles the aggregate from the idiosyncratic permanent component of labor income risks. The second step reconstructs the individual life-cycle dynamics of persistent shocks through a Kalman filter applied to the estimated labor income process. We are thus able to obtain the full cross-sectional distribution of individual correlations between permanent shocks and market returns.

Suggested Citation

Bagliano, Fabio C. and Corvino, Raffaele and Fugazza, Carolina and Nicodano, Giovanna, Hedging Labor Income Risk over the Life-Cycle (October 25, 2019). Proceedings of Paris December 2019 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - ESSEC, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3475446 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3475446

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