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Does Information Increase Political Support for Pension Reform?

Boeri, Tito; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

lengthen retirement age and/or cut pension benefits. After controlling for individual features of the respondent, we find that …

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The Impact of Changing Demographics and Pensions on The Demand for Housing and Financial Assets

Cerny, Ales; Miles, David K; Schmidt, Lubomir - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Using a calibrated OLG model with several sources of uncertainty we find that the impact of ageing and of reform of social security upon the demand for housing and the level of owner occupation is substantial. The overall structure of household asset holdings – in particular the split between...

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Retirement Expectations, Pension Reforms and Their Effect on Private Wealth Accumulation

Bottazzi, Renata; Jappelli, Tullio; Padula, Mario - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We estimate the effect of pension reforms on households’ expectations of retirement outcomes and private wealth … pension benefits to pre-retirement income. The Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a large random sample of the Italian … of social security arrangements on expectations of retirement outcomes and household saving decisions. Our main findings …

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The Portfolio Effect of Pension Reforms

Bottazzi, Renata; Jappelli, Tullio; Padula, Mario - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

elicits expectations of retirement outcomes, thus allowing us to measure the expected social security wealth and to assess to …

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Population, Pensions and Endogenous Economic Growth

Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...

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Framing Effects in Political Decision Making: Evidence From a Natural Voting Experiment

Bütler, Monika; Maréchal, Michel André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

the legal age of retirement in Switzerland, led to differences in approval rates of nearly seven percentage points. Based …

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Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico

Frías, Judith A; Kumler, Todd; Verhoogen, Eric A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Non-compliance of firms with tax regulations is a major constraint on state capacity in developing countries. We focus on an arguably under-appreciated dimension of non-compliance: under-reporting of wages by formal firms to evade payroll taxes. We develop a simple partial-equilibrium model of...

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An Econometric Analysis of the Mental-Health Effects of Major Events in the Life of Elderly Individuals

Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Major events in the life of an elderly individual, such as retirement, a significant decrease in income, death of the …

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The Structured Dependency of the Elderly: A Critical Note

Johnson, Paul A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

This paper examines the viewpoint that the dependency of elderly people in modern Britain has been increased by state action and social change. It argues that ideas of "structured dependency" are based upon theoretical premises which promote a one-sided reading of the evidence. An analysis of...

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Micro-Modelling of Retirement in Belgium

Dellis, Arnaud; Jousten, Alain; Perelman, Sergio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

The present Paper studies the retirement incentives for elderly people in Belgium. We model the incentive structure … built into the various public early retirement and retirement systems. First, we compute indicators of benefit entitlement … as of the implicit tax rates the elderly workers face in case of delayed retirement. We find strong evidence of social …

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