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This paper studies the design of indirect redistributive taxation and of corrective taxation, as well as the formation of equilibrium indirect tax policies via a political process, in the presence of status goods, allowing for the possibility that illegal copies of those goods may be purchased...
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This paper examines the allocative implications of progressive income taxation when individuals care about their relative income. It shows that tax progressivity might improve efficiency, and the more so in egalitarian economies. Introducing a progressive income tax can yield a Pareto...
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to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced “job … administrative data on their retirement to identify the effects of retiree health insurance. As expected, the availability of retiree …
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for consumption and the hours of time supplied to the labour market, they also choose their schooling level and retirement …
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We study the effects of an annuity market imperfection on individual agents’ labour supply and retirement decisions and …
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address this question in the context of a recent German pension reform which raised the statutory retirement age by two years … of work ability at retirement and fundamental opposition. Our results show that expected work ability declines …
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retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long …
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How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one’s living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find … replacement rate vis-à-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We subject indications regarding satisfaction with current income … the year of entry into retirement as a rather robust result, while replacement rates keeping the living standard unchanged …
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mortality process. Individual agents choose their optimal retirement age, taking into account the time- and age profiles of … wages, taxes, and the public pension system. The early retirement provision in most pension systems acts as a trap, inducing … most workers to retire well before the normal retirement age. Simulations show that pension reform must be drastic for it …
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choice to a work-retirement decision model and show that the optimal provision of choice is positively related to the degree …
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