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Personal Pensions with Risk sharing: Affordable, Adequate and Stable Private Pensions in Europe

Bovenberg, A Lans; Nijman, Theo E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Private pension provision faces the challenging task of providing stable income streams during retirement. The challenge has increased markedly in the last decades due to volatile financial markets, falling interest rates and the withdrawal of employers and external insurers as risk bearers of...

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Fatal Attraction? Access to Early Retirement and Mortality

Kuhn, Andreas; Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

cardiovascular disorders among eligible workers, suggesting that changes in health-related behavior explain increased mortality among …

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Does Raising the Retirement Age Increase Employment of Older Workers?

Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper studies how an increase in the minimum retirement age affects the labor market behavior of older workers. Between 2000 and 2006 the Austrian government gradually increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62.2 for men and from 55 to 57.2 for women. Using administrative data on the...

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Time Inconsistent Preferences and the Annuitization Decision

Schreiber, Philipp; Weber, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

When entering retirement most people face the decision whether they would like their defined contribution account balance paid as a lump sum or to annuitize the amount. The fact that people tend to choose the lump sum even if economic reasons suggest not to is called the annuity puzzle. In a...

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Run For Fun: Intrinsic Motivation and Physical Performance

Filippin, Antonio; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We use data from the 24-hours Belluno run which has the unique characteristic that participants are affiliated with teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also to study group dynamics in terms of accessions to and...

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Heterogeneity in Expected Longevities

Pijoan-Mas, Josep; Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

groups. Additionally, our analysis allows us to provide an answer to the old question of how health protecting are education …, wealth and marital status. To do so, we decompose the longevity differentials into differences in health at age 50 …, differences in the evolution of health with age, and differences in mortality conditional on health. Remarkably, the latter is the …

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The effect of firms' partial retirement policies on the labour market outcomes of their employees

Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

In this paper, we assess the impact of firms introducing part-time work schemes for gradual labour market exit of elderly workers on their employees’ labour market outcomes. The analysis is based on unique linked employer-employee data that combine high-quality survey and administrative data....

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Private, social and self-insurance for long-term care in the presence of family help: A political economy analysis

De Donder, Philippe; Pestieau, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

insurance and saving amounts. Agents differ in income, probability of becoming dependent and of receiving family help. Social … agents determines whether they prefer social or private insurance. Family support crowds out the demand for both social and …, especially, private insurance, as strong prospects of family help drive the demand for private insurance to zero. The …

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Social Security and Migration in an Ageing Europe

von Hagen, Jürgen; Walz, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The European ageing process will lead to a dramatic rise in dependency ratios over the next decades. At the same time labour mobility will increase as a result of greater European economic integration. We analyse the implications of migration and ageing for European social security systems. With...

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Benefit Duration and Unemployment Entry: Quasi-experimental Evidence for Austria

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper studies the impact of a selective extension of unemployment benefit duration on the incidence of unemployment in Austria. As the new law applies only to elderly workers in certain regions of the country after June 1988, a quasi-experimental situation is created. Unemployment entry is...

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