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Strengthening Employment-Based Pensions in Japan
Clark, Robert L. - 2002
strengthened in order to better serve one of the most rapidly aging populations in the world. Public and private pensions in Japan … traditional lifetime employment contracts. Recent legislation permitting the establishment of defined contribution plans in Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469823
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A Cross-Country Comparison of Old Age Financial Readiness in Asian Countries vs. the United States : The Case of Japan and the Republic of Korea
Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We pursue a cross-country comparison of relative financial readiness of older households in Japan and the Republic of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814424
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Social security programs and retirement around the world : micro-estimation
Gruber, Jonathan (ed.); Wise, David A. (contributor) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002582617
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Comparing the Economic and Conventional Approaches to Financial Planning
Gokhale, Jagadeesh - 1999
The conventional approach to retirement and life insurance planning, which is used throughout the financial planning industry, differs markedly from the economic approach. The conventional approach asks households to specify how much they want to spend before retirement, after retirement, and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471463
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Valuing Pensions (Annuities) with Different Types of Inflation Protection in Total Compensation Comparisons
Pesando, James E. - 1982
Pensions provided in the public sector are often indexed, while pensions in the private sector typically are not. To conduct the total compensation comparisons that ostensibly guide government pay policy, one must value annuities which differ in their degree of inflation protection. This paper...
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The Size and Composition of Wealth Holdings in the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands
Kapteyn, Arie - 2003
This paper analyzes retirement saving and portfolio choice in the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands. While these countries enjoy roughly the same standard of living, they vary widely in their institutional organization of retirement income provisions. Building on extensions of the life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468512
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Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems : An International Comparison
Beshears, John - 2015
What is the socially optimal level of liquidity in a retirement savings system? Liquid retirement savings are desirable because liquidity enables agents to flexibly respond to pre-retirement events that raise the marginal utility of consumption. On the other hand, pre-retirement liquidity is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457499
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Propagation and Smoothing of Shocks in Alternative Social Security Systems
Auerbach, Alan - 2013
Even with well-developed capital markets, there is no private market mechanism for trading between current and future generations, so a potential role for public old-age pension systems is to spread economic and demographic shocks among different generations. This paper evaluates the smoothing...
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Retirement Outcomes : Impacts of Outreach
Viceisza, Angelino C. G.; Calhoun, Amaia; Lee, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We review select literature on racial and ethnic disparities in retirement outcomes and the impact of outreach on such outcomes. First, there are significant disparities in retirement outcomes, reflecting a long history of racism and structural barriers. Second, there is comparatively little...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388812
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Are Americans More Altruistic than the Japanese? A U.S.-Japan Comparison of Saving and Bequest Motives
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2000
Comparative Survey of Savings in Japan and the United States,' a binational survey conducted in 1996 by the Institute for Posts … and Telecommunications Policy of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the Government of Japan, in order to shed … the dominant model of household behavior in both countries but that it is far more applicable in Japan than it is in the U …
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