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Collective versus Individual Pension Schemes: a Welfare-Theoretical Perspective

Westerhout, Ed; Bonenkamp, Jan; Broer, Peter - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2014

This paper explores the welfare effects of a number of collective pension contracts, distinguishing between the two welfare effects. We find that collective schemes can be either superior or inferior to individual schemes. Collective pension contracts allow for intergenerational risk sharing...

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Labour market effects of job displacement for prime-age and older workers

Deelen, Anja; Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de; Berge, Wiljan van den - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2014

This paper studies the effect of firm closures for prime-age and older workers. Administrative data on the Dutch labour force are used to follow a sample of Dutch workers who lost their jobs due to firm closures in the period 2000 - 2009. Applying difference-in-difference techniques and using a...

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Age-Specific Labour Market Effects of Employment Protection - A numerical approach

Boeters, Stefan - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2014

The particular situation of the youngest and oldest individuals on the labour market motivates age-specific labour market analysis. One topical case is employment protection for older workers. The effect of employment protection on the total number of jobs is ambiguous. The positive effect of...

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Reduced-rank time-varying vector autoregressions

Wind, Joris de; Gambetti, Luca - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2014

Discussion Paper 271</a> '<em>Time variation in the dynamic effects of unanticipated changes in tax policy</em>'. As a solution … number of variables and lags that can be incorporated in the model. Read also: <a href="http://www.cpb.nl/en/publication/time-variation-dynamic-effects-in-the-unanticipated-changes-in-tax-policy">CPB …

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Government spending shocks, sovereign risk and the exchange rate regime

Lukkezen, Jasper; Bonam, Dennis - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2014

Keynesian theory predicts output responses upon a fiscal expansion in a small open economy to be larger under fixed than under floating exchange rates. We analyse the effects of fiscal expansions using a New Keynesian model and find that the reverse holds in the presence of sovereign default...

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Saving behavior and risk taking: Evidence from the Dutch Tax Reform in 2001

Floor, Erik; Lejour, Arjan - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2014

We estimate the impact of the marginal tax rate on the ownership in risk-bearing assets and on the share in total assets. In contrast to the literature, we use instrumental variables to correct for endogeneity of the marginal tax rate on capital income. Moreover, we use the exogenous variation...

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The impact of a comprehensive school reform policy for failing schools on educational achievement; Results of the first four years

Elk, Roel van; Kok, Suzanne - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2014

This CPB Discussion Paper estimates the effects of a comprehensive school reform program on high-stakes test scores in …

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Time variation in the dynamic effects of unanticipated changes in tax policy

Wind, Joris de - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2014

: <a href="http://www.cpb.nl/en/publication/reduced-rank-time-varying-vector-autoregressions">CPB Discussion Paper 270</a …

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Targeted advertising, platform competition and privacy

Kox, Henk; Straathof, Bas; Zwart, Gijsbert - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2014

Targeted advertising can benefit consumers through lower prices for access to websites. Yet, if consumers dislike that websites collect their personal information, their welfare may go down. We study competition for consumers between websites that can show targeted advertisements. We find that...

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Urban traffic externalities: quasi-experimental evidence from housing prices

Ossokina, Ioulia; Verweij, Gerard - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2014

This paper exploits a quasi-experiment to value the benefits of reducing urban traffic externalities. As a source of exogenous variation we use the opening of a new bypass in The Hague, the Netherlands, that reduced traffic on a number of local streets, leaving others unaffected. We calculate...

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