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This paper argues that pensions are used as severance pay devices in an efficient compensation scheme. The major points of the study are: (1) Severance pay, which takes the form of higher pension values for early retirement, is widespread. (2) A major reason for the existence of pensions is the...
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, privatization reduces efficiency by about $5,600 per future household despite improved labor supply incentives.We check the … harms efficiency. However, increasing the progressivity of the remaining traditional system is very effective at restoring … risk sharing, thereby allowing partial privatization to produce efficiency gains of $2,700 per future household …
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One of the biggest criticisms leveled at defined contribution individual account (IA) components of social security systems is that they are too expensive. This paper investigates the cost-effectiveness of three options for constructing funded social security pillars: 1) IA's invested in the...
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This paper examines the efficiency gains from linking marginal Social Security benefits to marginal Social Security … effective marginal federal government taxation of labor supply would average roughly 38 percent. Since the efficiency costs of … dead weight loss of labor income taxation.The findings of this paper suggest that there may be very significant efficiency …
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