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State Contributory Pension reform : winners and losers : evidence from the Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Kakoulidou, Theano; Keane, Claire; Sándorová, Simona - 2024

The Yearly Average Method used in calculating State Contributory Pension entitlements has been criticised for creating anomalies, particularly for women. It has been announced that from 2034 onwards, entitlements will be based fully on the new Total Contributions Approach. This paper examines...

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Increasing pay related social insurance to fund the State Pension : incidence and effectiveness

Doorley, Karina; Tuda, Dora - 2024

Ireland, there have been recent calls to reform the system of contributions and/or increase the State Pension age in order to … Ireland has committed to retaining the State Pension age at 66. In order to achieve this and maintain the viability of the SIF … Insurance (PRSI), which will occur between 2024 and 2028. Using SWITCH, the ESRI's microsimulation model for Ireland, this paper …

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Spousal spillovers in the labor market : a structural assessment

Galaasen, Sigurd Mølster; Kruse, Herman - 2024

We explore the importance and nature of elderly couples' labor market interlinkages, and how such linkages shape the response to welfare reforms. To this end, we build a life cycle model with dual-earner households, featuring heterogeneous age gaps, non-separable leisure preferences, and...

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The outlines of a possible pension system funded with human capital

Banyár, József - In: Risks : open access journal 9 (2021) 4, pp. 1-32

The broadly used pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension system is intrinsically wrong. The essence of the problem is that the PAYG system distributes the yield of raising children, i.e., of human capital investment (which is essentially the pension contribution), in such a way that it disregards the...

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Income effects of disability benefits

Becker, Sebastian; Gehlen, Annica; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2024

We provide novel evidence about the incentive and welfare effects of an increase in the generosity of disability benefits. Importantly, a unique policy variation in Germany allows us to isolate the income effect of a change in benefit generosity. We leverage this quasi-experimental policy...

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The effect of pension wealth on employment

Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2023

This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a...

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Financial projection of the basic pension under selective eligibility criteria

Kim, Dohun - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 47 (2025) 1, pp. 95-134

This study conducts a financial projection of the basic pension in Korea, which provides cash assistance to the bottom 70% of elderly individuals aged 65 and over. The projection is carried out under both expansion and selective eligibility criteria, with particular emphasis on the latter....

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The end of Irish history? : reflections on the Celtic Tiger

Coleman, Steve (ed.); Coulter, Colin (ed.) - 2003

Ireland appears to be in the throes of a remarkable process of social change. Over the last decade, the apparently … expose the fallacies that drive the fashionable rhetoris of Tigerhood. Four of these fallacies - that Ireland has cast off … liberty are at an unprecedented level for all citizens, and that Ireland is also experiencing a period of strong cultural …

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Individual pension products offered by banks in Poland : a multidimensional comparative analysis

Rutecka-Góra, Joanna - In: Financial internet quarterly 17 (2021) 4, pp. 91-104

The supplementary old-age pension system in Poland consists of group and individual plans. This research covers the latter, namely the individual retirement accounts and individual retirement saving accounts that were introduced in 2004 and 2012 respectively. The main aim of the paper is to...

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Comparative standing of Kazakhstan pension system performance : learning policy lessons from Canadian experience

Tolymbek, Almaz - In: Technology audit and production reserves 6 (2022) 4/68, pp. 34-42

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