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until 2050. To quantify the effects on pensions, taxes and social contributions, we use an overlapping generations model …-the-job training. A passive fiscal strategy would be very costly. A comprehensive reform, including an increase in the effective …
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importance of unfunded, state pensions differs. We estimate how the optimal level of unfunded, state pensions depends on rate of … is rapid and unfunded pensions are currently generous. …
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income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … pensions have a significant negative impact on savings motives with respect to old age. Concerning the effect on household … occupational pensions. …
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We address the question of whether the heterogeneity in savings is partly due to differences in pension wealth across individuals and across countries, using a European harmonised wealth survey (HFCS) combined with estimates of pension wealth (OECD). First, we find significant displacement...
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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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identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …
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Low fertility rates combined with increases in early retirement pose a serious challenge to the sustainability of social security systems in most industrialized countries. Therefore, it is important for policy makers to understand the determinants of early retirement and especially the role that...
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Recent social security reform has significantly improved the long-run sustainability of the pension system. However … in the formal sector. Thus, further pension reform is one of the keys to overcoming Turkey's economic duality. Finally …
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paper assesses five proposals for pension reform made in late 2005 with a view to helping progress towards a final decision … on reform. The proposals cover a wide range of options: only parametric change of the current pay-as-you-go (PAYG) system …, early retirement incentives, diversification into private provision, simplicity and the pensions-earnings link. This Working …
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with increased disparities. In that context, less generous pensions may induce an increase in the claiming of invalidity …
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