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Consumption over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Czech Republic
Cahlíková, Jana ; Zápal, Jan (advisor) ; Hlaváček, Jiří (referee)
The main goal of this thesis is to analyze life-cycle consumption using Czech microeconomic data from the 2000-2008 Household Budget Survey (HBS). Inspired by Gourinchas and Parker (2002), who analyzed life-cycle consumption on American data, we construct the Czech average household life-cycle consumption and income profiles. It is found that the Czech average consumption profile is increasing over the whole life-cycle and there is no hump-shape in the profile, contrary to the American results. Consumption tracks income early in life and a breakpoint in household behavior is identified at age 45. Czech evidence on household consumption is interpreted in the context of the Certainty-Equivalent Life-Cycle Hypothesis Model and in the context of the Gourinchas & Parker (2002) Model of life-cycle consumption under income uncertainty, which brings a significant value-added for interpretation of the Czech profiles. The household behavior is interpreted by varying strengths of the precautionary (assuring against income uncertainty) and retirement motives for savings over the life. It is found that the Czech household life-cycle behavior can be interpreted in the similar way as the behavior of the US households. JEL Classification: D11, D12, D91, E21 Keywords: Consumption, Life-cycle, Household Behavior,...
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Economy of Households
Vaněčková, Lucie ; Vlček, Josef (advisor) ; Sieber, Martina (referee)
(in English): The Bachelor thesis focused on analysis of incomes and expenses of employee's households in the period 2001-2011. After definition of households it deals with their incomes, which divides in terms of origin and discusses the inequallity. Expenses of households are allocated to expenditures and savings. There are observed consumptation's expenditures in terms of structure. The budget of households is defined according to typology and there are described credits. The data, which were being dealt with, are presented in analytical part. Incomes are described in terms of development in the period and in terms of structures: where the wages of emploees are zoomed. Income inequality is monitored by two factors. The structure of households is compared in the terms of time highlighting the most important changes. Household's budget compares income and expenditure in different levels and within households with the lowest and highest income of the sample.
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Consumption over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Czech Republic
Cahlíková, Jana ; Zápal, Jan (advisor) ; Hlaváček, Jiří (referee)
The main goal of this thesis is to analyze life-cycle consumption using Czech microeconomic data from the 2000-2008 Household Budget Survey (HBS). Inspired by Gourinchas and Parker (2002), who analyzed life-cycle consumption on American data, we construct the Czech average household life-cycle consumption and income profiles. It is found that the Czech average consumption profile is increasing over the whole life-cycle and there is no hump-shape in the profile, contrary to the American results. Consumption tracks income early in life and a breakpoint in household behavior is identified at age 45. Czech evidence on household consumption is interpreted in the context of the Certainty-Equivalent Life-Cycle Hypothesis Model and in the context of the Gourinchas & Parker (2002) Model of life-cycle consumption under income uncertainty, which brings a significant value-added for interpretation of the Czech profiles. The household behavior is interpreted by varying strengths of the precautionary (assuring against income uncertainty) and retirement motives for savings over the life. It is found that the Czech household life-cycle behavior can be interpreted in the similar way as the behavior of the US households. JEL Classification: D11, D12, D91, E21 Keywords: Consumption, Life-cycle, Household Behavior,...
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Tax burden on the basic types of income in the Czech Republic
Doležalová, Lucie ; Vančurová, Alena (advisor) ; Bušovská, Monika (referee)
The goal of this bachelor thesis is to analyze the historical evolution of the tax burden on the basic types of incomes in the Czech Republic between years 1989 -- 2010, in two specific households (households of employees and self-employed households). The theoretical part defines the term of tax reform and describes particular reforms of the personal income tax in the Czech Republic since the year 1989. The future trend in this field is also outlined. The practical part aims to the tax burden evolution analysis for selected types of households. The principal data source for this thesis is from the Household budget survey.
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