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citizens would benefit, for three reasons, from pension saving in a risk-free savings account. First, citizens would have a … clear picture of the accumulation of their own pension savings throughout their working life. Second, they would pay hardly … no reasons why the European Union and individual member states should not allow individual risk-free pension savings …
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relatively low. Secondly, withdrawal of savings before retirement is very common. Thirdly, pension savings are often taken as … lump sums with the risk that people outlive their resources. Finally, pensions in payment are not automatically adjusted to …
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citizens would benefit, for three reasons, from pension saving in a risk-free savings account. First, citizens would have a … clear picture of the accumulation of their own pension savings throughout their working life. Second, they would pay hardly … no reasons why the European Union and individual member states should not allow individual risk-free pension savings …
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` reformed pension systems are providing adequate and safe pensions. Starting in 1990s, most Central and Eastern European …
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The main objective of this paper is to analyze the problem of population ageing in terms of the cessation of professional activity (and especially premature labour market withdrawals) in order to provide the various public and private administrations active in these fields with some food for...
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persistent unemployment, especially in Europe — and a supply effect — pension benefits and the value of other savings have … the role of privately managed defined-contribution pensions. An obvious question is how these regimes are likely to affect …. Pensions can be actuarially adjusted, depending on the year at ... …
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Reforming pensions is a central policy issue in developed and developing countries alike. However, it is challenging … study combines painstaking, rigorous analysis with clear, easy-to-understand presentation of empirical results. Pensions … future of pensions can all use as a reference point. International comparisons of retirement-income regimes to date have …
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This paper studies optimal insurance against idiosyncratic wage shocks in a life cycle model with intensive labor supply and endogenous retirement. When the fixed cost of work is increasing in wage, the optimal retirement wedge provides stronger incentives for delayed retirement with age....
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Using pseudo-panel microdata we show that pension generosity affects early retirement decisions. The changes in the average replacement rate and decreases in wealth accrual between 1967 and 2004 have caused an increase in early retirement probabilities from 16% to 63%.
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The central purpose of this paper is to introduce a new political economy explanation to modern Social Security Systems. This approach is based on the Single-Mindedness Theory (SMT), which assumes that the more single-minded groups are able to exert a greater power of influence on Governments...
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