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provides elderly assistance and is a source of savings for long-term investment. The pension systems in SSA, however, are …
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provides elderly assistance and is a source of savings for long-term investment. The pension systems in SSA, however, are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472622
This paper considers the quantitative role of growth in the size of the social security program in contributing to the collapse of personal saving in the U.S. over the last few decades. Using a calibrated, general equilibrium life-cycle model this paper shows that social security may not be to...
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This paper provides evidence to argue that the difference in the social security schemes of two countries may help explain the disparity in their saving rates. We examine the argument by limiting our focus to a comparison of New Zealand and Singapore for the period 1960–1993. We choose the...
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Estimating saving and fertility simultaneously by the VAR method, we find that social security cover has a positive effect on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was tested, social security is thus good for growth. A...
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article closes this gap by analyzing the development of Prussian savings banks’ deposits in the late 19th century with the … savings considerably. As counterfactual voluntary savings would have been far from sufficient, however, Bismarck’s social …
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article tries to close this gap by analyzing the development of Prussian savings banks' deposits in the late 19th century. The … introduction of social security can affect private savings in at least two different ways: on the one hand, it might induce … households to reduce their precautionary savings; one the other hand, it might give people a reason to reflect on their financial …
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particularly relevant for the quickly aging Asian economies: the volume of savings for old-age provisions, international … diversification of retirement savings, and global spillover effects of pension reforms. …
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pension system induces higher savings across the life cycle and makes agents wealthier and thus more reluctant to accept low … determine the strength of each effect, we develop a life-cycle overlapping generations model with job search, savings and a …
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This paper examines the substitution between pension wealth and household saving by studying Norway's 2011 pension reform. The analysis identifies the effect of reductions in social security pension generosity on household saving using cohort, time and sector variation in pension wealth induced...
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