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borrowing more that too at a rate higher than offered by pension savings, their life-time utility increases. …
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We propose a unified framework to measure the effects of different reforms of the pension system on retirement ages and macroeconomic indicators in the face of demographic change. A rich overlapping generations (OLG) model is built and endogenous retirement decisions are explicitly modeled...
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A model is presented that explains the mix between funded and unfunded pension systems. It turns out that total pension and the relative shares of the two systems may be explained and are determined by the population growth rate, technological growth, the time-preference discount rate, the...
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This paper provides a two-part empirical analysis on how actuarial reduction rates for early retirement affect current pension payments in Germany and to what extent the existence and the magnitude of these reduction rates influence people s retirement planning. First, by evaluating a large...
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down. Depending on the relative returns from public pensions and private savings as well as on the elasticity of compliance … rate is more likely to be positive when the median income is low and when the return from public pensions dominates that of … private savings. The level of the Bismarkian pillar will now be chosen so as to account for increased political support, for …
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to each other. -- mandatory pensions ; tax-favored retirement accounts ; voluntary contributions ; subsidies. …
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Nonfinancial defined contribution (NDC) pension systems have recently become popular because they provide the strong incentives of the private funded systems without requiring a difficult transition period. Using the framework of mechanism design, these systems have theoretically been criticized...
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supply decision and 3) accounts for contributions-defined pensions of the US social security system. With these more …
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This paper analyzes the interconnections of underreported earnings, savings and oldage pension with the help of a most … ; proportional pensions ; basic pensions ; meansassisted pensions …
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. Moreover, we introduce "indifference bands" in an age-savings plane to assess the robustness of our findings. Majority votes …
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