The labor force participation rates of older men in Taiwan have dropped substantially over the last decade. Previous studies show that the implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) program in 1995 accounts for a decline in female labor force participation. In this paper, we use the...

This paper uses an OLG model to analyze the dilemma between efficiency and fairness, and then give a numerical simulation for China’s reform practice in pension system with Chinese data.Results showed that :1)Compared to efficiency and fair distribution, partial full-funded syste- m was better...

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This article employed a voting model to describe the optimum strategy for later retirement. The results indicated that, later retirement just a emergency measure to pension shortfall. The preference to later retirement was related with the gap between actual age and legal retirement age. The...

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This paper investigates whether distributional effect arising from the impact of monetary policy on bank credits will be different when monetary policy is asymmetric. Methodologically, we use a set of high frequency panel data for Taiwan commercial banks and adopt Arellano and Bond's (1991)...