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model overstates electricity savings when it is applied to Australia …
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the Netherlands in the period 1995 through 2001, we analyse the impact of wealth, savings, and debt position on job exit …
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This study investigates the efficiency of the process of benefit determination for welfare recipients in Germany. A stochastic frontier analysis is used to compute (in)efficiency of Jobcenter (employment offices) in terms of average processing time used for determining benefit levels per case....
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In a nationally-representative sample, we predict retirement savings using survey-based elicitations of exponential … present over the future, are highly significant and economically meaningful predictors of retirement savings. These … calculations suggest that eliminating EGB and PB would increase retirement savings by approximately 12 percent …
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retirement becomes shorter. At the median level of years to retirement, the absolute values of the elasticity of savings with …
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of workers born in 1950 or later. At the same time, a tax-facilitated savings plan was introduced that substantially … assess the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male … savings to counter the effect of the reform. These workers, who are generally in worse health, have zero substitution rates …
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age for women born after 1951 in Germany, we show evidence of a reduction in private savings rate and an increase in …
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While cost savings is the primary motivation for the switch to four-day school weeks in many school districts, do these …
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The lifecycle approach is the workhorse to model saving decisions of individuals. It conjectures individuals preferring a constant consumption stream across their lifecycle saving till retirement and dis-saving thereafter. The reality is often at odd with this assumption giving rise to our...
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We explore whether a protective role for savings against future financial hardship exists using household level panel …
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