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Do savings increase in response to salient information about retirement and expected pensions?
Dolls, Mathias; Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2016
How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … change the level of pensions, but only manipulated the knowledge about and salience of expected pension payments. Using … on private retirement savings. Our results show that the letters increase private retirement savings. The effects are …
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Nonfinancial defined contribution pension schemes : is a survivor dividend necessary to make the system balanced?
Boado-Penas, María del Carmen; Vidal-Meliá, Carlos - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 4/6, pp. 242-247
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A simple measure of pension generosity
Wagner, Gary A.; Elder, Erick - In: Applied economics letters 27 (2020) 19, pp. 1581-1586
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A Simulation Method to Measure the Tax Burden on Highly Skilled Manpower
Elschner, Christina; Schwager, Robert - 2004
A model is presented for simulating the tax burden on highly skilled manpower. The effective average tax rate, defined as the relative wedge between total remuneration and disposable income, is computed. Income and payroll taxes and social security contributions not yielding an equivalent...
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A Simulation Method to Measure the Tax Burden on Highly Skilled Manpower
Elschner, Christina; Schwager, Robert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
A model is presented for simulating the tax burden on highly skilled manpower. The effective average tax rate, defined as the relative wedge between total remuneration and disposable income, is computed. Income and payroll taxes and social security contributions not yielding an equivalent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097743
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Excess sensitivity of consumption, liquidity constraints, and mandatory saving
Park, Cheolbeom; Lim, Pei Fang - In: Applied economics letters 11 (2004) 12, pp. 771-774
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15 years of pension reform in Germany: old successes and new threats
Bonin, Holger - 2009
The paper surveys the state of German pension system after a sequence of reforms aimed at achieving long-term sustainability. We argue that the latest reforms have moved pension provision in Germany in principle from a defined benefit to a defined contribution scheme, and that this move has...
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Intrinsic work motivation and pension reform acceptance
Heinemann, Friedrich; Hennighausen, Tanja; Moessinger, … - 2011
(increasing pension age, increasing contributions, cutting pensions) can be analyzed within the framework of an optimal job …
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Linking savings behavior, confidence and individual feedback: A field experiment in Ethiopia
Avdeenko, Alexandra; Bohne, Albrecht; Frölich, Markus - 2019
In this paper we investigate behavioral constraints to savings among smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia. Increasing … savings by overcoming such behavioral constraints has been documented to have positive effects on various outcomes such as … health, education, and agricultural investments. We causally identify a strong increase in savings to a soft commitment …
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