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characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events - using data from the Household Income … Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited …
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This paper uses a telephone survey of 950 employers to examine employer-side restrictions on phased retirement. Not only did the survey collect information on establishment level policies, it also asked questions about a specific worker’s opportunity for phased retirement. The paper uses these...
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This paper examines the relationship between firms’ wage offers and workers’ supply of effort using a three-period experiment. In equilibrium, firms will offer deferred compensation: first period productivity is positive and wages are zero, while third period productivity is zero and wages...
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Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order … household wealth is crowded out by pensions? (2) Can linear regression analysis accurately estimate the magnitude of crowdout … results indicate that private pensions in the US crowd out less than $0.15 of household saving per dollar of pension wealth …
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comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and other 'benefits in kind', evaluate it as …
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receive generous pensions and face mandatory retirement by age 60, and an informal system, under which rural residents and …
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is likely to be caused by a wider variety of sources, including better health, less pervasive defined benefit pensions … and in general less generous pensions. …
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This paper re-examines the effects of population aging and pension reforms in an OLG model with labor market frictions. The most important feature brought about by labor market frictions is the connection between the interest rate and the unemployment rate. Exogenous shocks (such as aging)...
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design of health insurance, pensions, and unemployment benefits programs. Going forward, there a few general principles that …
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This paper investigates the impact of financial incentives on early retirement behaviour for high and low wage earners. Using a stylized life-cycle model, we derive hypotheses on the behaviour of the two types. We use administrative data and employ a linear random effects model to test the...
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