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Forced saving, redistribution, and nonlinear social security schemes
Cremer, Helmuth; De Donder, Philippe; Maldonado, Darío; … - In: Southern economic journal 76 (2009) 1, pp. 86-98
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Forced saving, redistribution and nonlinear social security schemes
Cremer, Helmuth; De Donder, Philippe; Maldonado, Darío; … - 2008
selfʺ emerges when labor supply and savings decisions are made. The social welfare function is paternalistic: the rate of … show that the paternalistic solution does not necessarily imply forced savings for the myopics. This is because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003720340
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Compliance, informality and contributive pensions
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Maldonado, Darío; Pestieau, Pierre - 2015
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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Contributive Pensions and Imperfect Tax Compliance : A Political Economy Model
Leroux, M.‐L. - 2018
This paper sheds light on the role of public institutions as a way to reduce tax evasion through a close link between payroll taxation and pension benefits. We use a political economy model in which agents have the possibility to hide part of their earnings in order to avoid taxation. Taxation...
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Habit formation and labor supply
Cremer, Helmuth; de Donder, Philippe; Maldonado, Darío; … - 2008
This paper shows that the combination of habit formation - present consumption creating additional consumption needs in the future - and myopia may explain why some retirees are forced to unretire, i.e., unexpectedly return to work. It also shows that when myopia about habit formation leads to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273778
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Habit Formation and Labor Supply
Cremer, Helmuth - 2008
This paper shows that the combination of habit formation - present consumption creating additional consumption needs in the future - and myopia may explain why some retirees are forced to 'unretire', i.e., unexpectedly return to work. It also shows that when myopia about habit formation leads to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771200
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Forced saving, redistribution and nonlinear social security schemes
Cremer, Helmuth; de Donder, Philippe; Maldonado, Darío; … - 2008
self" emerges when labor supply and savings decisions are made. The social welfare function is paternalistic: the rate of … show that the paternalistic solution does not necessarily imply forced savings for the myopics. This is because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273777
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Voting Over Type and Generosity of a Pension System when Some Individuals are Myopic
Cremer, Helmuth; De Donder, Philippe; Maldonado, Dario; … - 2011
retirement and regret their insufficient savings decisions. Henceforth, when voting they tend to commit themselves into forced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014026599
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Social Security in Belgium : Distributive Outcomes
Jousten, Alain; Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio; … - 2005
The paper analyzes the link between old-age income programs and economic outcomes in Belgium. We use a simulation methodology to construct an average pension generosity variable. Our regression analysis explores the link with distributional outcomes in income, consumption and more subjective...
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Forced saving, redistribution and nonlinear social security schemes
Cremer, Helmuth; De Donder, Philippe; Maldonado, Dario; … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003727708