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private sector. As such, social security reforms can affect both retirement decisions and sectoral choices. We study the … effects of social security reforms on retirement and sectoral behavior in an economy with multiple pension systems. We develop … public - and endogenous retirement. We quantitatively assess the long-run effects of reforms being discussed and implemented …
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of public health care in Colombia during 1993-2008. Parametric pension reforms have focused on increasing the retirement …
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We compare the long-term output and current account effects of pension reforms that increase the retirement age with … a policy trade-off. Pension reforms that increase the retirement age have a large positive effect on output, but a small …: Increasing the Retirement Age -- C. Reform II: Cutting Pension Benefits -- D. The Long-Run Tradeoff between Output and the …
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heavily refers to the recent U.S. Social Security reform debate in general and to the Personal Retirement Accounts proposal in … retirement. …
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Pension reform is a key policy challenge in Russia. This paper examines how pension spending could increase in Russia in the absence of reforms, quantifies the impact of some recent proposals, and suggests some alternatives that would ensure public pension benefits - relative to wages - not fall...
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In Japan, intergenerational inequality in lifetime resources is substantial, with a heavier fiscal burden on the young than the old. Moreover, given the need for fiscal consolidation, the inequality is even worse than existing policy would suggest. However, this does not mean that fiscal...
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The rapid aging of China's population over the next few decades makes it important for a new pension system with broad and adequate coverage to be put in place quickly. Pension reforms, first initiated in 1997, have become bogged down in difficulties over dealing with the "legacy costs"...
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those increasing the retirement age under alternative tax policies. The analysis is based on a model in the Auerbach … pressures at the peak of the demographic shock as much as increasing the retirement age in line with life expectancy (4 …
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The macroeconomic implications of a pension reform that substitutes a high-return fully-funded system for a low-return pay-as-you-go system are discussed in an overlapping generations, neoclassical growth model. With forward-looking individuals, a debt-financed reform worsens the current...
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India's planned pension reform will set up a proper regulatory framework for the pension industry and open up the sector to private fund managers. Drawing on international experiences, the paper highlights pre-conditions for the reform to kick-start financial development, including: (i) the...
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