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We study the sustainability of pension systems using a life-cycle model with distortionary taxation that sets an upper … welfare of a number of policies often advocated to improve the sustainability of pension systems. New tax data on dynamic …
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developed countries have created government reserve funds to ensure macroeconomic sustainability. This paper aims to study the … importance that this reserve fund plays in the sustainability of the Spanish public pension system. Using data for the 2000 to …
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age, reducing the replacement rate, or introducing a sustainability factor linking pension to life expectancy. The aim of … Spain but that could have a significant impact if it were fully implemented. This reform, called ‘silent reform’ because it … is imperceptible to citizens in its early stages, basically consists in increasing maximum pensions in line with …
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This paper addresses the questions of what is an economically efficient pension system, what are the externalities and what are the risks of the four alternative pension systems: financial defined contribution (FDC), notional or non-financial defined contribution (NDC), financial defined benefit...
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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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myopia may justify public pensions but never alongside positive private savings. With sufficient myopia, co-existence of … positive optimal pensions and positive private saving is possible if the real interest rate on saving evolves endogenously, as …
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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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This paper examines the choice of pension scheme and job mobility in Britain. Workers in Britain can choose to belong wholly to the social security (public pension) programme, or to a company-provided plan (occupational pension), or to purchase their own individual pension. We use household...
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and growth. The social security system has two components: old age pensions and unemployment insurance. Pensions have a … direct effect on economic growth. Both pensions and unemployment benefits influence equilibrium unemployment caused by wage …
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Although immigration of workers generates a positive externality on members of domestic pension systems, many countries are very reluctant to allow foreigners into their labor markets. In a political economic framework, we explain this voting outcome by considering a young unskilled median voter...
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