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We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced...
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We compare two policies of increasing British state pension provision: (a) increase the pensionable age of men and women, (b) maintain the existing retirement age but require older workers to work longer per-period hours. There are reasons for policy makers to give serious consideration to the...
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This paper shows the effects on a pay-as-you-go pension system of the demographic change in the standard overlapping generations model. Firstly, we consider a setting with exogenous fertility and then a model with endogenous fertility. In both cases, population ageing due to increased longevity...
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This study identifies the causal effect of pension generosity on women's fertility behavior. It capitalizes on Brazil's expansion of the pension system to rural workers, whose pension wealth subsequently more than tripled. Event study, difference-in-differences and instrumental variable methods...
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In this paper we consider the effects of population aging on a pay-as-you-go financed defined contributions pension … scheme. We show that when retirement decisions are endogenous, aging increases the retirement age and the steady state level …
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Population aging is typically associated with economic challenges for productivity and financial threats for the old … policies, such as recognizing that population aging and increased life expectancy are quite likely the biggest challenge to … measurement of population aging – globally and for East Asian countries; outlines critical policy paths to address population …
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While there is a vast literature considering the labour market effects of immigration, less has been done to investigate how immigration affects the educational choices of young natives. Using Italian provincial data and an instrumental variables strategy, we show that the recent increase in the...
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of it was intended to illuminate issues of compelling policy importance, such as declining fertility and population aging …
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We develop an OLG model with realistic assumptions about longevity to analyze the welfare effects of raising the …
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Immigration has become recently one of the most important subjects in socio-economic debates. In many countries immigrants are commonly presented as a threat to host economies and societies. On top of this fiscal impacts of immigration are ones of the hottest and most controversial topics in...
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