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Pension reform options for Russia and Ukraine: A critical analysis of available options and their expected outcomes. With a focus on labour market, industrial restructuring and public finance

Góra, Marek; Rohozynsky, Oleksandr; Sinyavskaya, Oxana - 2010

This paper provides the results of analyses of key problems related to pension systems and their reforms in Russia and Ukraine. The pension systems and their reforms in both countries are compared. They are also compared with the general picture observed in the OECD or selected countries...

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Developing Asia's pension systems and old-age income support

Park, Donghyun; Estrada, Gemma B. - 2012

Old-age income support is becoming an issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This is especially true in East and Southeast Asia where the population is aging. This paper provides a broad overview of the current state of pension systems in the People's Republic of China, Indonesia, Republic...

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Hungarian Pension System and its Reform

Simonovits, András - 2009

The goal of this study is to present an insider view on the pension reforms implemented in Hungary between 1996 and 2009. Both political economy as well as institutional economics will be used as the main approaches to analyse and explain the reform process and some of its effects. The following...

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International Economic Crisis and the Hungarian Pension Reform

Simonovits, András - 2011

By 2008, the Hungarian pension system has become too generous and the implied contribution rate hindered growth. When the international economic and financial crisis deprived Hungary from normal credits, its government turned to international organizations for help. The most spectacular element...

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Population, Pensions, and Endogenous Economic Growth

Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - 2008

We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...

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Pension reforms in Poland and elsewhere: The view from Paris

Jarrett, Peter - 2011

Recently several countries, including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, have at least partially reversed their earlier moves towards compulsory defined-contribution schemes. This paper concentrates on Poland, which just reduced contributions going to the...

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The trouble with final salary pension schemes

Silver, Nick - 2006

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Comparing public attitudes towards providing for the livelihood of the elderly in two aging societies: Germany and Japan

Hayo, Bernd; Ono, Hiroyuki - 2007

Germany and Japan. Applying an ordered logit model to individual data from representative public opinion surveys, it is … inclination towards a government-based pension system in the case of Japan but positively in Germany. Other significant influences … are the pensioner status of the respondents in Japan and their political position in the case of German data. …

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An assessment of consumption and income taxes in Japan

Horioka, Charles Yuji; Sekita, Shizuka - 2004

and equity, we evaluate the past and present structure of Japan's consumption and income taxes, we consider the role of … reconstruction, and finally, we make policy recommendations based on our findings. We find that the structure of Japan's current … will simultaneously improve both the efficiency and equity of Japan's tax system. …

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Why is Austria’s Pension System So Much Better Than Germany’s?

Blank, Florian; Logeay, Camille; Türk, Erik; Wöss, Josef - In: Intereconomics 51 (2016) 3, pp. 118-125

The pension systems in both Germany and Austria have undergone substantial reforms, though only one of the countries appears to have had success. Average earners in Austria will receive gross pensions equivalent to 78.1% of their average earnings, whereas in Germany they will receive just 37.5%....

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