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Savings, Child Support, Pensions and Endogenous (and Heterogeneous) Fertility

Simonovits, András - 2013

decreases with pension contributions and increases with taxes; (ii) the introduction of fertility-dependent pensions may …

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Jumping the welfare gap in designing public transfers

Simonovits, András - 2017

We consider three transfer models with a representative individual who discounts the utility of the merit good with respect to the standard one's. In each model, a paternalistic government taxes the consumer and transfers him additional merit goods in return. The private purchase of the merit...

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Maintaining One's Living Standard at Old Age: What Does that Mean? Evidence Using Panel Data from Germany

Dudel, Christian; Ott, Notburga; Werding, Martin - 2013

How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one's living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find a firm basis for an empirical treatment of this question, we employ a novel approach to assessing an adequate replacement rate vis-à-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We...

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Leaving the Labor Market Early in Sweden – Learning from International Experience

Bengtsson, Mats; König, Stefanie; Schönbeck, Simon; … - 2022

It is a challenge for politics that an aging population leads to demands that the retirement age is increasing while not everyone is able to work to such a higher age. Sweden, like other countries, has several options for early exit from the labour market. However, the regulations have become...

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Perspektiven der gesetzlichen Alterssicherung

Wagner, Gert G. - In: Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital 48 (2015) 3, pp. 409-425

In diesem Beitrag werden ausgewählte grundsätzliche Probleme und Möglichkeiten, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Kapitaldeckung, der Alterssicherung in Deutschland und der europäischen Union diskutiert. Konkret eingegangen wird auf die Themen Beitragssatz, Rentenniveau, Altersarmut,...

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Funded and Unfunded Pension Schemes: Risk, Return and Welfare

Miles, David K. - 2000

pensions and on a particular type of unfunded (PAYG) pension. Surprisingly little is known about the optimal split between … state the importance of PAYG pensions differs. We estimate how the optimal level of unfunded, state pensions depends on rate …

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Retirement Incentives in Belgium: Estimations and Simulations Using SHARE Data

Jousten, Alain; Lefèbvre, Mathieu - 2013

The paper studies retirement behavior of wage-earners in Belgium - for the first time using rich survey data to explore retirement incentives as faced by individuals. Specifically, we use SHARE data to estimate a model à la Stock and Wise (1990). Exploring the longitudinal nature of SHARELIFE,...

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Calculating the redistributive impact of pension systems in LAC

Altamirano, Alvaro; Oliveri, María Laura; Bosch, Mariano; … - 2023

average, LAC's pension systems are subsidized, as they provide pensions above what workers would have obtained by investing … replacement rates (pensions relative to earnings) for low-income workers. Despite this progressivity, in some countries, absolute … much more progressive, but still, because low-income workers do not qualify for minimum pensions, between 50-60% of …

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A constitutional theory of the family

Cigno, Alessandro - 2005

effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or …

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Can adult education delay retirement from the labour market?

de Luna, Xavier; Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - 2010

In this paper, we examine whether adult education delays retirement and increases labour force participation among the elderly, a mechanism suggested in the OECD strategy for 'active ageing' and the 'Lisbon strategy' of the EU. Using register data from Sweden, we analyse transcripts from adult...

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