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One cornerstone of current attempts to reform the German public health care system by introducing private insurance …
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Mit dem Einstieg in die staatlich geförderte private Altersvorsorge, der Einführung des Nachhaltigkeitsfaktors und der …
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NDC reform in China. … addressed in a reform that transforms an unfunded defined contribution (NDB) scheme into a notional (or non-financial) defined …
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Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
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based on the 1997 Mexican pension reform, which effectively tied pension benefits more closely to reported wages for younger … workers than for older workers, we show that the reform led to a relative decline in under-reporting for younger workers …
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The present paper analyzes the budgetary impact of various Social Security reforms in the Belgian institutional setting. Our approach relies on parameters that were derived in Dellis et alii (2002) using a micro-modeling strategy. Focusing our attention on a hypothetical age cohort, we...
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In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension … accounts. The paper critically reviews the reform decisions and evaluates their long-term viability. It is shown that the …
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This paper assesses the impact of a dramatic reform of the Dutch pension system on mental health, savings behavior and … retirement expectations of workers nearing retirement age. The reform means that public sector workers born on January 1, 1950 or … reform. This effect increases as birth dates approach the threshold date. Furthermore, the effects differ in accordance with …
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To estimate the effects of large cuts in pensions on the age of first benefit receipt, we exploit two natural experiments in which such cuts affect a group of repatriated ethnic German workers. The pensions were cut by about 12%, yet, according to our regression discontinuity estimates based on...
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responses to alternative pension reform strategies relying on improved work incentives (flexibility) or increased access ages …
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