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The timing of retirement : new evidence from Swiss female workers
Hänel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2012
We investigate the responsiveness of individual retirement decisions to changes in financial incentives. A reform … identify causal effects. We find strong and robust behavioral effects of changes in financial retirement incentives. A … low education respond most strongly to an increase in the price of leisure. -- retirement insurance ; incentives ; social …
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Are social security programs progressive? : whether social security programs reduce inequality is not related to the amount they redistribute
Forteza, Alvaro - 2015
Social security programs generally seek to provide insurance and to reduce poverty and inequality. Providing insurance requires little redistribution. But reducing inequality and alleviating poverty do require redistribution. To reduce inequality, programs must redistribute income, but...
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How did Feldstein (1985) undervalue the optimal level of social security benefits?
Simonovits, András - 2017
In his seminal model (Feldstein, 1985), the government operates a social security system to counter the representative worker's myopia. (i) For a complete myope, he determined a sizable optimal tax rate (and the corresponding benefit level). (ii) For a partially shortsighted worker, he...
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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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Do public program benefits crowd out private transfers in developing countries? : an overview of evidence from social protection policies
Nikolov, Plamen; Bonci, Matthew - 2020
Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in developing countries in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms for risk-protection,...
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Do public program benefits crowd out private transfers in developing countries? : a critical review of recent evidence
Nikolov, Plamen; Bonci, Matthew - 2020
Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms...
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Do public program benefits crowd out private transfers in developing countries? : a critical review of recent evidence
Nikolov, Plamen; Bonci, Matthew - 2020
Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012195191
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Trends in Social Security Incentives in Belgium
Fraikin, Anne-Lore; Jousten, Alain; Lefebvre, Mathieu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
increasing the labor force participation through better work incentives. Using individual-level administrative data, the paper … how social security incentives and particularly their changes over time can explain the retirement decision. We calculate …
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The Supplemental Security Income Program and Incentives to Take Up Social Security Early Retirement : Empirical Evidence from Matched Sipp and Social Security Administrative Files
Powers, Elizabeth T.; Neumark, David - 2010
manner that creates incentives for prospective SSI recipients to take social security early retirement (SSER). This paper …
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The effects of pension rights and retirement age on training participation: evidence from a natural experiment
Montizaan, Raymond; Cörvers, Frank; De Grip, Andries - 2009
This paper uses a natural experiment approach to identify the effects of an exogenous change in future pension benefits on workers' training participation. We use unique matched survey and administrative data for male employees in the Dutch public sector who were born in 1949 or 1950. Only the...
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